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As reported in our family letter, November 2005, our family has retained Cliff Gardner and Lawrence Gibbs to handle Scott's habeas proceedings. The announcement finally came in July 2009 that Cliff Gardner was assigned by the State of California to also handle Scott's direct appeal. Both Mr. Gardner and Mr. Gibbs have post-conviction practices that include representing state defendants on direct appeal, and on both state and federal habeas proceedings.

Some of Cliff's backgroud, as stated on his website include:

In over 25 years of practicing criminal law, Cliff Gardner has developed extensive experience representing clients in post-conviction proceedings, including both appellate and habeas corpus representation.

Mr. Gardner's post-conviction experience includes representing clients at all levels of the state and federal systems. In addition to handling many cases before the intermediate appellate courts in California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, he has briefed and argued several cases in the United States Supreme Court; he has also argued over a dozen cases before the California Supreme Court. Mr. Gardner has published numerous articles about post-conviction practice, spoken at various national conferences on appellate and post-conviction issues, and successfully represented capital defendants in California, Idaho, Montana and Arizona. To read more click to go to Law Offices of Cliff Gardner.

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