He won renown taking up the wrongful-death case of Libby Zion, the daughter of New York Daily News columnist Sidney Zion.
Mesereau said it was "suspicious timing" for the claim to be filed at the start of the trial of the Michael Jackson wrongful death case, in which Jackson's mother and children are suing concert promoter AEG Live.
Even if Merck wins the next case to go to trial, a death case in U.S. federal court scheduled for Nov. 28, Cooper added, "there is no way we will go away, the documents are too strong" against Merck.
"The reality is almost every death case in the Army -- almost every -- has been overturned on appeal, and there hasn't been an execution in the Army since the early '60s, " Browne said, referencing the 1961 hanging of Pvt.
Recent studies of the federal death penalty system reveal that the average cost of defending a capital case are at least eight times those for defense of a non-death penalty case.
In that kind of case, Justice Kennedy said they're rare, but that a federal court should reopen an old death row case and sort of rehear the evidence.
Fort Stewart commanders earlier decided not to pursue it as a death penalty case.
On her death the case had been reopened and, with her help, evidence was slowly being gathered again.
And what about this Arizona death penalty case at the Supreme Court?
Mr Bush earlier this month granted his first 30-day reprieve in a death penalty case, but continued to claim confidence in his state's capital punishment system.
Left to bleed to death, his case was the most notorious in the history of the Wall.
Two men have been sentenced to death in a case that sparked violent clashes between Muslims and Buddhists in Burma, lawyers have told the BBC.
During one death-penalty case, he fell asleep on several occasions.
At the time of his death, the case was still open and had not yet gone to trial because of a backlog of cases at the Toulouse public prosecutor's office, Mouton said.
"Whatever the cause of death in this case we should not be surprised if, as the outbreak grows, we start to see deaths in Wales, " said Dr Marion Lyons, PHW's director of health protection.
The same year Congress also passed an anti-terrorism law which included strict new procedural rules that make it much more difficult to mount an appeal in a death-penalty case, even when new evidence is found.
Death-penalty supporters said the Holmes case was well-suited for the death penalty.
Mrs Hope's death is the 22nd case to be investigated at the Stockport hospital.
The Haditha incident resulted in the highest civilian death toll of any case of alleged wrongdoing by U.S. troops.
She said she hopes prosecutors pursue the death penalty in the case.
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Authorities originally charged Nicholas Morris, a friend of Mr. Hemphill's, with the death, but the case ended with the judge declaring a mistrial in 2008.
Another prospective, a philosophy professor, said that while he does not favor state executions he may be willing to consider the death penalty in this case.
In 2004, a State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan found Mr. Ramos responsible for Etan's death in a civil case brought by Mr. Patz and his wife, Julie.
"Interest in the situation exploded, " said Marc Klaas, whose 12-year-old daughter, Polly, was kidnapped and strangled to death in a 1993 case that also received intense news coverage.
He had been due to find out if he was going to face the death penalty after his case was adjourned on 23 January while judges considered psychiatric reports.
Manchester City Council said it had had contact with the family before Kaiya's death and a serious case review was to be carried out by the city's safeguarding children board into its involvement.
Last year, the lorry driver was found responsible for Glen's death in a civil case brought by the family and an inquest found Glen died as a result of a road traffic accident.
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