For well over a decade, Duane Buck has been challenging his death
sentence as based in part on racial prejudice, after a psychologist
testified that he was more likely to be a future danger because he is
black.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to give him another try.
By a vote of 6-2, the court found that Buck's
own defense lawyers introduced the racially charged testimony during
his trial and later failed to challenge it on appeal, depriving him of
effective counsel. The ruling gives Buck another chance to argue that he
should not get the death penalty.
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