Why I have a stomach ache…
I read an article in the New York Times about Jerry Guerinot and right now, I feel the need to warn my readers: should you ever be in trouble, please check your lawyer’s reputation and track record, please!
According to the New York Times, twenty of Mr. Guerinot’s clients have been sentenced to death. That is more people than are awaiting execution in about half of the 35 US states that have the death penalty.
“People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty,” US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said.
So what is Mr. Guerinot’s secret?
It seems to boil down to a failure to conduct even rudimentary investigations, said David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston and the litigation director of the Texas Defender Service, which represents death row inmates, including not a few of Mr. Guerinot’s former clients. “He doesn’t even pick the low-hanging fruit which is hitting him in the head as he’s walking under the tree,” Mr. Dow said.
Vidocq does not know Mr. Guerinot but the description of the Linda Carty case, worries me deeply. Read it for yourself, please! The NYT article is here. Prof. Dow’s blog is here.
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