My lawyer told me that
he is filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court concerning my three
Federal death sentences. It is extremely unlikely --- less than a
tenth of one percent chance --- that the Supreme Court will even
consider the appeal (“crapshoot justice” in action).
The issue my attorney
wants the Supreme Court to consider is whether or not someone
(generally, but me specifically) should be executed without a
review of all the available facts and evidence at the time of trial.
My lawyer claims that my case creates a definitive standard, not only
because I declined to appeal (on my own behalf), but also because
when I represented myself at the sentencing trial (after I plead
guilty against my attorney's advice to all charges with no conditions
or “deals” with the persecutors) I did not present any mitigating
evidence or testimony.
So, basically, what my
lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to consider is whether or not “we”
(the people) should kill someone after essentially only hearing one
side (the persecutor's side) of the story.
As I mentioned, it's
not very likely that the Supreme Court will even consider this
question (they get to pick and choose what questions are “worthy”
of their esteemed consideration), but submitting the question --- any
question the “defense” lawyers can come up with really --- is
just the next step, of many remaining, in the systematic process of
killing someone in this country.
[J.D. 10-20-2015]
