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22 Apr 2012, 6:54 am by Jessica Monaco, ACLU
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]
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… [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 8:58 am by Steve Hall
In April, in the first case tried under the Racial Justice Act, Resident Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks ruled in favor of Marcus Robinson, an African-American, who was convicted of killing a white teenager. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 9:40 am by Alex Stamm, Center for Justice
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]
30 Jan 2012, 8:42 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
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]
4 May 2012, 10:05 am by Steve Hall
Marcus Raymond Robinson was convicted in 1994 of killing a white teenager. [read post]
 Meanwhile, the first RJA hearing will begin on January 30th in the case of ACLU client Marcus Robinson, where the ACLU will have the opportunity to expose the racial injustices that continue to plague our death penalty system. [read post]
Despite this broad agreement, our nation has failed to rid race from the decision to execute — take, for instance, the case of Marcus Robinson in North Carolina. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 2:50 pm by Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
The Racial Justice Act allows death row prisoners like Marcus Robinson a hearing in which they can present statistics and other evidence showing that death sentences state- and county-wide were tainted by racism and that their death sentence should be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 8:37 am by Steve Hall
“He ruled based on the facts and the evidence, and found that racial bias affected Marcus Robinson’s trial. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 11:10 am by Law Lady
IRA MARCUS, individually, IRA MARCUS, P.A., a Florida corporation, and GRANADA, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Appellees. 4th District.Contracts -- Commercial lease -- Eviction -- Error to grant summary judgment in favor of plaintiff on claim for eviction where there were genuine issues of material fact about occurrence of alleged defaults and lessor's correction of any defaults within terms of lease and whether alleged violations of lease were material; and where… [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 7:51 am by Steve Hall
In the first case under the law, Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks ruled in April that condemned killer Marcus Robinson's 1991 trial was so tainted by the racially-influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:18 am by Steve Hall
Weeks commuted the death sentence of Marcus Robinson, an African-American convicted of a 1991 murder. [read post]
21 Apr 2013, 1:09 pm by Rebecca Weitzman
In a landmark April 2012 ruling based on that Act, a judge found intentional and systemic racial discrimination in the case of Marcus Robinson, and commuted his death sentence to life without parole. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 2:00 am
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16 Nov 2011, 12:41 pm by Steve Hall
William Barber refute inaccurate claims from the state's Conference of District Attorneys regarding the Cumberland County case of Marcus Robinson, in which qualified African-Americans were wrongly excluded from the jury pool. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 12:52 pm by axd10
Recovering the Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy. 82 Tulane Law Review 2369 (2008) Marcus, R. [read post]
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