LAT: Lockyer (CA AG) Asks (USSC) Justices to Rein In 9th Circuit Court

Lockyer Asks Justices to Rein In 9th Circuit Court
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer urged the Supreme Court on Monday to shield the state courts from being second-guessed on criminal cases by the judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal of the federal appellate courts.

He was challenging a recent 9th Circuit ruling that reversed the 9-year-old drug conviction of a Los Angeles man because of possible race bias in the selection of one of the jurors.

The justices should make clear there is "a presumption of correctness for state court fact-finding," said Lockyer, making his first appearance before the high court.

Lockyer complained that 320 lawyers at the state Department of Justice spend most of their time responding to criminal appeals in the federal courts.

In the United States, most crimes are prosecuted by the states. In such cases, convicted criminals can pursue two lines of appeal: one in the state courts, followed by a second in the federal courts through a so-called writ of habeas corpus....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus6dec06,0,3388729.story?coll=la-home-nation

Removing that right from American citizens too? What was that little War of Independence all about, then?

And isn't he considering challenging Ah-nuld?

The proper solution here is for prosecutors to get their shit together, not further erosion of defendants rights.

You know that's what these fuckers really want. And the fact that they have a D after the name is meaningless anymore.

I'm seriously considering becoming a Green Libertarian. Or a Libertarian Green.

he never had my vote

we'll take our lib Treasurer Angelides, even if he does look like Steve Belzer

not gonna happen Bill.