Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Breard v. Greene Nos. 97-8214 (A-732), 97-1390 (A-738), 97-8660 (A-767), 125 Orig. (A-771) The United States Supreme Court held (6-3) that Breard, a Paraguayan citizen who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a Virginia court in 1993, had procedurally defaulted his claim that the state court proceedings violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by first raising that claim in federal habeas corpus proceedings rather than in state court. Complicating matters was an April 8, 1998 filing by the Republic of Paraguay in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on this matter. On April 9, the ICJ requested the United States to take all measures to see that Breard was not executed until the ICJ could hear his claim in November 1998. The U S Supreme Court held, however, that the procedural rule of the forum state (VA) governs the proceedings at hand, and that the Supreme Court case law would not allow a stay of execution in this instance. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
