The Washington Post, December 18, 2009 by Robert Barnes and Maria Glod
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121704299_pf.html
To Berman and Elisabeth Semel, director of the death penalty clinic at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, it makes sense that the court, divided on many aspects of capital punishment, takes the chance to present a united front when it sees examples of mistakes in death penalty cases that all justices agree on.