The New Mexico AG's Office is trying to track down some info on an expert witness named William J. Bowers of the Capital Jury Project in Boston, Mass. Apparently, Bowers provides "expert" testimony to the effect that it is impossible to assemble an unbiased capital jury and is
prepared to present this testimony in a NM AG prosecution set for hearing on Mar. 8, 2008. The NM AG Office has heard that Bowers presented similar testimony in a Calif. DP case, but they do not know the name of the case.

If Bowers' name appears or rings a bell with anyone, please contact Georgette Oden, Assistant Attorney General,
Postconviction Litigation Division, at (512) 936-1773.

These references should provide a good orientation to his views.

Bowers, William J. (1996). "The Capital Jury: Is it Tilted Toward Death?" 79 Judicature 220.
Bowers, William J. (1995). "The Capital Jury Project: Rationale, Design, and a Preview of Early Findings." 70 Indiana Law Journal 1043.
Bowers, William J. (1993). "Capital Punishment and Contemporary Values: People's Misgivings and the Court's Misperceptions." 27 Law & Society Review 157.
Bowers, William J., Marla Sandys, Thomas W. Brewer (2004). "Crossing Racial Boundaries: A Closer Look at the Roots of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing when the Defendant is Black and the Victim is White." 53 DePaul Law Review 1497.
Bowers, William J., Marla Sandys, and Benjamin D. Steiner (1998). "Foreclosed Impartiality Capital Sentencing: Jurors' Predispositions, Guilt Trial Experience, and Premature Decision Making." 83 Cornell Law Review 1474.
Bowers, William J., Benjamin D. Steiner, and Michael E. Antonio (2003). "The Capital Sentencing Decision: Guided Discretion, Reasoned Moral Judgment, or Legal Fiction." In James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier, (2nd Ed.) America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (Second Edition). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Bowers, William J. and Benjamin D. Steiner (1999). "Death by Default: An Empirical Demonstration of False and Forced Choices in Capital Sentencing." 77 Texas Law Review 605.
Bowers, William J. and Wanda D. Foglia (2003). "Still Singularly Agonizing: Law's Failure to Purge Arbitariness from Capital Sentencing." Criminal Law Bulletin 39:51-86 .
Bowers, William J., Wanda D. Foglia, Jean E. Giles, and Michael E. Antonio (2006). "The Decision Maker Matters: An Empirical Examination of the Way the Role of the Judge and the Jury Influence Death Penalty Decision-Making." 63 Washington and Lee Law Review 931.
Bowers, William J. and Benjamin D. Steiner (1998). "Choosing Life or Death: Sentencing Dynamics in Capital Cases." In James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier (Eds.) America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Bowers, William J., Benjamin D. Steiner, and Marla Sandys (2001). "Death Sentencing in Black and White: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Jurors' Race and Jury Racial Composition" 3 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 171.
Brewer, Tom W. (2005). "The Attorney-Client Relationship in Capital Cases and its Impact on Juror Receptivity to Mitigation Evidence."