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No new trial for man who confessed to murder

The Columbian
Published: January 19, 2011, 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a criminal whose lawyer didn’t challenge his confession to a murder will not get his conviction overturned.

The high court on Wednesday overturned a decision by the federal appeals court in the case of Randy Moore.

Moore pleaded no contest to murder charges in the shooting death of Kenneth Rogers during a 1995 kidnapping and received a 25-year sentence in Oregon prison. He appealed his sentence, saying his lawyer should have tried to suppress his confession to police.

The state courts turned away his petition, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that his lawyer performed unreasonably.

The Supreme Court overturned that decision in a unanimous judgment. Justice Elena Kagan did not take part in the case.

The case is Premo v. Moore, 09-658.

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