Jordan Rubin: The Supreme Court rarely sides with death row prisoners. Why this Texas case is different.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the high court has gone “soft” on death row appeals — look no further than its actions in other cases on Monday alone. The Supreme Court's rebuke of the Texas ruling says more about the state court than it does about the Supreme Court.
If anything, the fact that it was up in the air whether the justices would even acknowledge Texas’ prosecutors “confession of error” is an indictment of the court itself.Jordan Rubin is a blog writer for MSNBC focused on legal analysis. He previously served as a prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and is the author of the forthcoming book “Bizarro” about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Prior to joining MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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