The Texas Clemency Memos. Alan Berlow.
by Berlow, Alan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 78Institutions. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Bush | Capital punishment | Clemency | Death row inmates | Due process of law | Evidence -- Criminal | Executions and executioners | Governors | Lawyers -- Corrupt practices | Memorandums | TexasDDC classification: 050 Summary: "As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales--now the White House counsel, and widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee--prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review." (ATLANTIC MONTHLY) This article examines the Gonzales memoranda, while noting that the "memoranda suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand," including "ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Texas Clemency Memos, July/Aug. 2003; pp. 91-96.
"As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales--now the White House counsel, and widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee--prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review." (ATLANTIC MONTHLY) This article examines the Gonzales memoranda, while noting that the "memoranda suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand," including "ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence."
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