Lawyer Conduct Eyed in Death Penalty Case

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is considering whether a lawyer was wrong to concede a death row inmate's guilt without his consent, a case that gives justices another opportunity to consider standards for attorney conduct in death penalty cases. On Election Day, justices were hearing arguments in a case challenging a Florida Supreme Court decision to grant a new trial for Joe Elton Nixon. He was convicted in the 1984 murder of a woman he met at a Tallahassee mall. Posted by Editor at November 3, 2004 01:18 PM