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23 Apr 2012, 2:33 pm
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, 5:45 am
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… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 10:09 pm
Shouldn’t Robinson be granted a new trial? [read post]
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]
22 Apr 2012, 6:54 am
One such law made headlines and great strides for justice on Friday, when a North Carolina judge found statistical evidence of racial discrimination in the capital punishment system and commuted Marcus Robinson's death sentence to life without parole. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 5:28 pm
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
” Marcus Reymond Robinson was sentenced to death in 1991 for killing a white teenager. [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]
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]
20 Apr 2012, 10:55 am
First Racial Justice Act Case Decided: The Associated Press reports Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks, in the first decision under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, commuted the death sentence of Marcus Robinson to life in prison because he found race played a "persistent, pervasive and distorting role" in jury selection. [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]
20 Apr 2012, 8:10 am
The judge's decision is an important victory for more than just Marcus Robinson. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:59 am
Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks ruled Friday in Fayetteville that, since race played a significant factor in his sentence, death row inmate Marcus Robinson's sentence should be vacated. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 9:35 am
The case of the first inmate to test this law, convicted killer Marcus Reymond Robinson, is currently being heard, and as Times staff writer David Zucchino reported Wednesday, it's being watched carefully in other states. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 9:52 am
Weeks heard closing arguments Wednesday as to whether race played an improper role in the death penalty conviction of Marcus Raymond Robinson in the first case tried under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 9:30 am
Weeks heard closing arguments Wednesday on a case involving the death sentence of Marcus Reymond Robinson, a black man convicted in 1994 of murdering a 17-year-old white man during a robbery. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 8:03 am
Weeks heard arguments in a case involving the death sentence of Marcus Reymond Robinson, a black man convicted in 1994 of murdering a 17-year-old white man during a robbery. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 6:09 am
The case involves Marcus Reymond Robinson, an African American, who was sentenced to death for killing a 17 year old white man. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 8:49 am
The ACLU is part of a team of lawyers representing Marcus Robinson, a black defendant convicted and sentenced to death by a jury that may have been tainted by a racially biased jury selection process. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 9:40 am
The ACLU and co-counsel represent Marcus Robinson, a black defendant convicted in the death of a white person and who received a far harsher judgment than similarly-situated white defendants from a jury that may have been racially biased. [read post]
