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    Brian Dorsey execution: Corrections officers rally behind Missouri man who claims lawyers had conflict

    by Josh Marcus Apr 05, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: JEREMY WEIS PHOTOGRAPHY

    Brian Dorsey, a Missouri man scheduled to be executed on 9 April, isn’t arguing he’s innocent.

    He isn’t arguing that police hid evidence, targeted him out of racial animus, coerced a confession, or any of the other myriad problems that show up in capital appeals.

    Rather, he argues that the since-discontinued state practice of paying appointed public defenders a flat fee in capital cases left him with such bad legal representation it violates the 6th Amendment, and condemned him to death after a trial in which evidence of mental health

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