{"id":637438,"date":"2010-01-21T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"364 at http:\/\/eji.org\/eji"},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:30:18","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-orders-review-of-judge-jury-misconduct-in-georgia-death-penalty-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/637438","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Orders Review of Judge-Jury Misconduct in Georgia Death Penalty Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court on January 19, 2010, issued a decision in <i>Wellons v. Hall<\/i>, a Georgia death-penalty case in which jurors gave the trial judge and bailiff sexually suggestive gifts during Mr. Wellons&#8217;s trial for rape and murder.  The Court wrote:  &#8220;The disturbing facts of this case raise serious questions concerning the conduct of the trial, and this petition raises a serious question about whether the Court of Appeals carefully reviewed those facts before addressing petitioner&#8217;s constitutional claims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eji.org\/eji\/node\/364\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court on January 19, 2010, issued a decision in Wellons v. Hall, a Georgia death-penalty case in which jurors gave the trial judge and bailiff sexually suggestive gifts during Mr. Wellons&#8217;s trial for rape and murder. The Court wrote: &#8220;The disturbing facts of this case raise serious questions concerning the conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FPg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}