I want to thank you all for your recommendations and information. He was hoping that this would be a good appeal item, but it sounds like it isn't. I have one last question. A few months ago the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles cannot receive life sentences for a murder they committed as...
Since his previous confession/interrogation was thrown out by the 9th circuit as coerced, can the state still use the confession if the defendant wants to testify? Where I am going with this, is Johnathan is trying to determine if the trial lawyer mislead him stating that if he testifies the...
Thank you very much. So this leads me to my next question. during his last trial he wanted to testify but his lawyer threatened to walk out if he testified (due to the assumption the state could then bring in his interrogation/confession). If the assumption was incorrect and the state was not...
This is the Johnathan Doody case. 9th Circuit Court deemed his interrogation/confession was coerced, kicked out his confession, and reversed his conviction. Now in his last trial he did want to testify but his lawyer said no as this would open up the state to bring in his...