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22 Apr 2012, 2:12 pm
There's death penalty news to discuss at length:Racial justice for Marcus Robinson in North Carolina.Clemency for Daniel Greene in Georgia.Scheduling a hearing on Gary Haugen's effort to reinstate his execution date in Oregon.The murder of Mark Wiles here in Ohio to restart our execution engine after six months.There are developments in other cases:George Will says LWOP for kids is always wrong. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 3:50 am
In the first case, Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks struck down the death sentence imposed on Marcus Robinson under the RJA as enacted in 2009. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:36 am
The ACLU is part of a team of lawyers representing Marcus Robinson, a black defendant convicted in the death of a white person and who received a far harsher judgment than white defendants who committed comparable crimes from a jury that may have been tainted by a racially biased jury selection process. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 9:13 am
The first person to bring and win a case under the Racial Justice Act in North Carolina was Marcus Robinson, who was convicted of murdering a white teenager back in the early 2000s. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm
Nina Robinson, Lecturer, Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity, School of Journalism, Birmingham City University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 8:50 am
No one is actually playing Marcus Antonius in the buff bleating out: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:51 pm
As Eder reported here, Judge Weeks overturned the death sentence of Marcus Reymond Robinson, who was convicted in 1994 of murdering a white 17-year-old during a robbery. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 2:42 am
CAMPBELL (NCDOC#0063592), )Petitioners, ))v. ) 07 GOV 0238)NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL OF STATE, )Respondent, ))JAMES EDWARD THOMAS and )MARCUS ROBINSON and )ARCHIE LEE BILLINGS, )Petitioners, )) 07 GOV 0264v. ))NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL OF STATE, )Respondent )) DECISION [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 8:33 am
And: The judge's decision is an important victory for more than just Marcus Robinson. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 10:40 am
According to a recent report by the Charlotte Observer, inmate Marcus Robinson, who has been on death row for over 17 years, is trying to convince a judge that under the Racial Justice Act his death sentence should be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
30 May 2018, 1:15 pm
In our client Marcus Robinson’s case, for example, of eligible members of the jury pool, prosecutors struck half of the Black potential jurors, but only 14 percent of the non-Black potential jurors. [read post]
1 May 2024, 7:04 am
Supreme Court to decide if he can sue (Maureen Groppe, USA Today) Jones Day Leads in Supreme Court Arguments With New Faces (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law) Justice Stephen Breyer’s blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: ‘Slow down’ (Devin Dwyer, Patty See, & Sarah Herndon, ABC News) Amy Coney Barrett is no handmaid to the Supreme Court’s conservative majority (Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post) The post The morning read for… [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm
Kemp, a North Carolina judge today ruled that racial bias impacted the death penalty conviction of Marcus Robinson and re-sentenced him to to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:32 am
Marcus Robinson is a black man serving a death sentence for killing a white teenager in 1991. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 12:21 pm
The hearing for Marcus Robinson had been scheduled to begin Tuesday. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 11:42 am
Recently, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks found that racial bias played a substantial role in the death sentence of defendant Marcus Robinson. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 1:07 pm
Sealed records would become public again if an offender committed another crime.First Trial Under Racial Justice Act: Paul Woolverton of The Fayetteville Observer reports the first hearing in North Carolina under the Racial Justice Act began today for Marcus Reymond Robinson, who was sentenced to death for robbing and killing a 17-year-old boy in 1991. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 3:18 pm
The RJA attempts to correct the worst effects of that harm by disallowing the execution of a person like Marcus Robinson whose jury was tainted by racial exclusions. [read post]
7 May 2012, 10:54 am
In a first test case, Judge Weeks utilized a recent 2009 state law, the Racial Justice Act, to overturn a death sentence for Marcus Robinson and handed the defendant life without parole instead. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 8:10 am
The judge's decision is an important victory for more than just Marcus Robinson. [read post]
