Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2010 by Maura Dolan
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/27/local/la-me-death-lawyers-20101201

“There are myriad reasons why dozens of lawyers who used to do these cases decide they can’t afford it,” said UC Berkeley law professor Elisabeth Semel. “I am talking about not going broke because you are trying to do the right thing for your client.”

“The idea that you are saving someone who is condemned under appointment by the court seems be the highest calling any criminal lawyer can have,” Gardner said. “Standing between the death chamber and your client is why we went to law school.”

San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2010 by Jaxon Van Derbeken
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/04/MNJ71CTL6A.DTL

Clifford Gardner, an adjunct faculty member of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school who specializes in appeals, said courts have been receptive to overturning convictions under a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving disclosure of witnesses’ pasts, Brady vs. Maryland. “If the witness is important and the evidence impeaches the witness,” Gardner said, “Brady usually is going to require reversal.”