Maura Dolan reports in the Los Angeles Times on this morning’s argument of the challenge to Proposition 66. Much of the questioning apparently focused on the five-year limit the initiative sets for the Supreme Court to decide death penalty appeals. (See here.)
As mentioned, a Supreme Court death penalty opinion filed just yesterday relates that an innocent man was wrongly convicted for one of the murders actually committed by the death penalty defendant, spending 16 years in prison before being exonerated. Proposition 66 provides a five-year deadline for state courts to “complete the state appeal and the initial state habeas corpus review in capital cases.”
[Update: Bob Egelko reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: “State Supreme Court skeptical about key death penalty provision.”]
