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West Virginia Record (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... Fight to Save Death Row Inmates" was released Sept. 24, and follows Rose and his defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Temple said he spent about 4 1/2 years following Rose and the other lawyers as they worked with Jones' case. "Sometimes these types of cases can go on for decades. Jones' case did, but I was only there for the...
Legal Writing Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
That intriguing title graces the cover of a new book about North Carolina attorney Ken Rose. The new book chronicles Rose’s decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. It’s the most frustrating case...
Executed Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... the jury room this way: A clutch of jurors huddled in the corner with one reading aloud from the Book of Numbers: “The murderer shall surely be put to death” and “The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer.” Another juror highlighted passages which she showed to a fellow juror: “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, the murderer shall surely be put to death.” (Apparently one...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest...
