Theresa Youngblut asked to meet with death penalty panel

 

by Joseph Gresser

BURLINGTON — Theresa Youngblut, who is facing federal charges of using a deadly weapon while assaulting a United States Border Patrol agent and using and discharging a firearm during and in relation to that assault, has been told to meet with representatives of the U.S. Attorney General’s Capital Case Review Committee on July 28.  The stated purpose of the meeting is to allow Ms. Youngblut to lay out reasons she shouldn’t face the death penalty should the government file charges that potentially carry that penalty against her.

On June 30, her lawyer Steven Barth asked U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss to delay that meeting for at least six months.  He said the schedule put forward by prosecutors is unusually compressed and he needs time to work with “learned counsel,” that is, a lawyer who has substantial experience providing defense to those facing a death sentence.

In a separate letter Matthew Rubenstein, director of the Capital Resource Counsel, said his research showed that during the Biden administration such cases allowed an average of ….

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