Supreme Court Won’t Review Death Sentence
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the death sentence of Stephen W. Anderson, who has been on death row for 20 years for the 1980 murder of Elizabeth Lyman in San Bernardino.
Anderson’s attorneys contend that their client’s state court-appointed lawyer, S. Donald Ames, provided inadequate representation and that law enforcement authorities questioned him improperly before his arraignment.
Later Tuesday, Anderson’s lawyers filed new motions with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, noting that the court recently struck down the death sentence of another man on the grounds that Ames had provided deficient representation.
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