Legal colleagues consider Clarke to be the nation's foremost expert on defending federal capital cases.
Clarke went on to join the defense teams in other high-profile capital cases in the federal courts.
One name mentioned is Judy Clarke, who has worked as a consultant in other high-profile capital cases.
Most states, although they put massive resources into prosecuting capital cases, put virtually none into guaranteeing an adequate defence.
She paid the taxes and donated the money to a nonprofit agency that defends the poor in capital cases.
In January, a retired prosecutor with experience in capital cases, Dan Zook, was appointed to lead the state's case.
This comes after a federal magistrate judge Monday approved appointment of a defense attorney who specializes in handling capital cases.
New York state has set up a special Capital Defence Unit with experienced lawyers who specialise only in capital cases.
McVeigh lawyers then attempted a second round of "collateral" appeals, which may be granted but are not automatic in federal capital cases.
The report found dozens of examples of defendants convicted on minimal evidence, use by prosecutors of jail-house informants, and defence lawyers disbarred for misconduct after defending capital cases.
Gerald Zerkin, a defense attorney for Moussaoui, said after the verdict that apparent inconsistencies in the jurors' decisions "are always going to be found" in such capital cases.
Soon I will send to Congress a proposal to fund special training for defense counsel in capital cases, because people on trial for their lives must have competent lawyers by their side.
With no statewide public-defender system, legal representation for capital cases is notoriously shoddy, and defendants in Texas face judges who have been elected for their promises to speed up appeals in capital cases.
According to a 2004 study by the Center on Wrongful Convictions, at Northwestern University Law School, lying police and jailhouse informants are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases in the United States.
Opponents of the death penalty, accepting that it is most unlikely to disappear, would at least like to increase the resources available to defendants in capital cases, and require some minimum level of competence from lawyers and investigators.
"We take this moment to remind prosecutors and their staffs that the Racial Justice Act mentions the idea of training program, to help weed out racial bias as they exercise their broad discretion in capital cases, " said the Rev.
With the current groundswell of death penalty opposition based on the possibility of executing an innocent person, elected officials may now find some advantage in approaching capital cases (even those where innocence is not an issue) with a greater degree of care and honesty.
Komisarjevsky received his death sentence three months before the state repealed capital punishment in future cases.
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Take the two judges working on the mammoth SAC Capital Advisors insider-trading cases.
"The process of opening up much-needed state schools is being impaired by a lack of capital funding and in some cases by the presumption in favour of free schools and academies, " he said.
The Chicago Tribune recently examined all the 285 death-penalty cases since the reinstitution of capital punishment.
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Even though the payments may be spread out over several years, the seller, in most cases, has to pay capital gains tax on the total sale price immediately.
The securities law of 1933 makes raising startup capital from your own parents illegal in many cases.
"As a result, the market for solar in Germany is exploding, " says Philippe Cases, a partner at venture capital firm Partech International in San Francisco.
"As a result, the market for solar in Germany is exploding, " says Philippe Cases , a partner at venture capital firm Partech International who invests in clean tech companies.
In some cases they account for bigger flows of capital than aid or foreign investment.
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