After seven years of legal wrangling, a trial date has been set for an appeal by death row inmates alleging racial and geographic biases in how state prosecutors seek the death penalty.
[...] lawyers in the case say there could be more delays because Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty for future capital crimes this year.
"Why would you continue this huge piece of litigation ... if the repeal is not valid prospectively?" asked public defender Michael Courtney, who is representing home invasion triple killer Steven Hayes.
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