One week ago, I gave an update on the California lethal injection litigation.  I ended by noting that I would bet that the Court of Appeal would reject the petition of CDCR and the AG to stop our suit and do so with a one-line denial.

Unfortunately, no one took the bet.  I would have won.

Will Secretary Beard and Attorney General Harris now take this case to the California Supreme Court?  I think that would be dumb, but then I thought it was dumb to take it to the Court of Appeal.

For almost three decades, I have been fighting side-by-side with state attorneys general against obstruction of capital punishment by the defense bar.  It is more than a little strange to be fighting against obstruction by a state attorney general.