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''Maples v. Thomas'', , is a United States Supreme Court ruling in which the Court ruled 7–2 that Cory R. Maples, who had been convicted of murdering two people and faced a possible death sentence, should get another opportunity court because his lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell had abandoned him. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented from the Court's holding, arguing that the procedural default shouldn't be excused. ==Facts== In 1997 Cory Maples was convicted of murder and received the death sentence in Alabama. Alabama does not provide death row inmates with lawyers to appeal their convictions and sentences so they must rely on pro bono lawyers to represent them. Two lawyers from the New York law firm Sullivan and Cromwell agreed to represent Maples free of charge. Those lawyers later quit the law firm and when the Alabama court sent copies of a ruling in Maples' case to the firm's mail room, the law firm returned the copies unopened. The law firm never notified the court or the mail room that new lawyers had taken over the case. Because this information was never received the deadline for appeal was missed. When Maples learned of the missed deadline, he had his step-mother contact the law firm. The lawyers now handling the case ask for permission to still appeal despite missing the original deadline, but that request was denied. 〔http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2011/2011_10_63〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maples v. Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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