Federal Government Opposes Certiorari, Stay For Indian Facing Execution

Mealey's (August 21, 2020, 11:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should reject a Navajo man's petition for certiorari and application to stay his planned Aug. 26 execution because he has no chance of succeeding on the merits of his claim that he is entitled to interview jurors from his murder trial to determine if any were biased against Indians, the federal government says in its Aug. 20 brief in opposition (Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States, No. 20-5398 U.S. Sup.)....