Supreme Court confronts case of death row inmate whose lawyers quit his case

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Cory R. Maples was not surprised the day he heard that a court had rejected his challenge to his death sentence. "Down here, they're pretty serious about it," he said in a phone call from Alabama's death row.

But the other news left him in "a state of shock": the two lawyers from the prestigious New York law firm who had agreed to represent him had quit, quite some time before, without so much as a goodbye.

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Ylan Q. Mui 30 Sep, 2011

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