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24 Apr 2012, 8:50 am
The San Francisco Chronicle last Saturday reported North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks' vacating the death penalty of convicted murderer Marcus Reymond Robinson, in a landmark ruling there, saying prosecutors across the state had engaged for years in a deliberate and systematic pattern of racial discrimination while striking black potential jurors in death penalty cases.Weeks, in a [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 2:33 pm by Suzanne Ito
North Carolina Judge Finds Evidence of Racial Bias in Death Penalty Concluding that racial bias played a significant factor in the sentencing of a North Carolina man to death, a county judge ordered that the Marcus Robinson's sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole, the first decision under North Carolina's groundbreaking Racial Justice Act. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 12:55 pm
The video captured by Robinson's surveillance cameras shows an unidentifiable figure pulling up in his SUV, pulling down his pants, and squatting in Robinson's driveway. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 5:45 am by Gideon
In the first ever decision applying the RJA, Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks held [PDF] that Marcus Robinson’s death sentence must be commuted to life without the possibility of release because of racial bias in the jury selection process: Race played a “persistent, pervasive and distorting role” in jury selection and couldn’t be explained other than that “prosecutors have intentionally discriminated” against Robinson and other capital… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 5:58 pm by Gillian Tan
Australia's Allens Arthur Robinson and U.K. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:12 pm by Jeff Gamso
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]
22 Apr 2012, 6:54 am by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
Robinson's case was the first to challenge a death sentence under the historic North Carolina Racial Justice Act. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:06 am by SO Issues
Karen Robinson, Hancock county's sex offender coordinator, said she didn't realize until Friday that Wallace offenders still showed up on the map at their last known addresses. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 5:28 pm by Jamie Davis
Judge Gregory Weeks vacated Marcus Reymond Robinson's death sentence after he determined that race was a significant factor in choosing members of the jury for Robinson's trial. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 3:35 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
” Marcus Reymond Robinson was sentenced to death in 1991 for killing a white teenager. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm by Lovechilde
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]
20 Apr 2012, 1:54 pm by pgbarnes
Jeffrey Robinson, co-author of “Standing Next to History: An Agent’s Life Inside the Secret Service,” told NPR this week that the agency prefers to hire ex-football players because “they understand how to play their positions in situations where teamwork is essential. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 10:55 am by CJLF Staff
Weeks said prosecutors intentionally discriminated against Robinson, who was convicted of murdering a 17-year-old boy in 1991. [read post]