Divided Supreme Court Overturns State Death Row Conviction

court and put Pitchford back on death row.

Afterward, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case.

“In this case, whether due to confusion, oversight, an overly hurried jury selection process, or some other cause, things broke down, and the ordinary trial-court procedure for resolving Batson claims at step three never occurred, notwithstanding the repeated continue reading …