Guardian for Incompetent Death Row Inmate
For the first time ever in California, the state supreme court has appointed a guardian ad litem to make crucial decisions for a death row inmate declared incompetent.
Hopefully this will pave the way for arguments that an inmate who is too incompetent to assist his counsel is also too incompetent to be executed -- especially now that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned the execution of the retarded.
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