cases you have a lot of cases emanating out of alabama like woods and thomas this year in which cory maples went to trial with pro bono counsel, with two very inexperienced counsel at both the guilt phase and at the sentencing phase. the counsel failed to put on any evidence about the fact that he had been taking crystal meth and crack on the night of the murders, which might have suggested that he under obama law that hetin have the mental capacity to be responsible and at the sentencing phase they put on no evidence about his bouts with depression, the fact that he had been suicidal by his mother and abused and the other kind of mitigating evidence that might have helped at the sentencing phase. they were so overwhelmed at the sentencing phase that the attorneys themselves said to the jury we know it looks like we're stumbling around in the dark. so, obviously, he was sentenced to death. and then at the post-conviction phase he actually seemed to hit the jackpot. he got two attorneys from sullivan and cromwell, a new york law firm who agreed to represent him. they did all of his post-conv

emanating out of alabama as wood versus allen two years ago and maples versus thomas this year in which cory maples went to trial with pro bono counsel, two very inexperienced counsel at both the guilt phase and at the sentencing phase. the counsel fails to put on any evidence about the fact that he had been taking crystal meth and crack on the night of the murders, which might have suggested that he under alabama law doesn't have the mental capacity and the fact that he had bouts of depression and suicidal, abandoned by his mother, abused and the other kind of mitigating evidence that might have helped at the sentencing phase, in fact, they were so overwhelmed at the sentencing phase that the attorneys themselves said to the jury, we know it looks like we're stumbling around in the dark. so, obviously, he was sentenced to death. and then at the post-conviction phase he actually seemed to hit the jackpot. he got two attorneys from sullivan and cromwell, a new york law firm, who agreed to represent him. they did all of his post-conviction work and then they disappeared. and so when the clerk of the