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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]
6 Feb 2012, 8:36 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]
6 Feb 2012, 8:32 am by Steve Hall
Marcus Robinson is a black man serving a death sentence for killing a white teenager in 1991. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 10:54 am by Rachel Myers, ACLU
The ACLU’s Cassandra Stubbs 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]
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 Jan 2012, 1:07 pm by CJLF Staff
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]
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]
23 Jan 2012, 2:00 am by INFORRM
It was a busy media law week at the Royal Courts of Justice, with the seventh week of the Leveson Inquiry and the settlement of 37 phone hacking cases against News International. [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]
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]
29 Nov 2011, 11:45 am by Will Matthews, 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]
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]
14 Nov 2011, 12:21 pm by Steve Hall
The hearing for Marcus Robinson had been scheduled to begin Tuesday. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 8:16 am by Steve Hall
Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks was assigned to hear Marcus Robinson's appeal because he is the senior resident judge in Cumberland County. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 2:03 pm by Steve Hall
Cumberland County prosecutors said in a motion filed Tuesday that they want Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks removed because he may be called as a witness in the case of Marcus Robinson, who's challenging his death sentence under the state's Racial Justice Act. [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]
The fact is, Marcus Robinson, along with approximately 160 other men on North Carolina's death row, filed claims under the RJA more than a year ago. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:02 am by CJLF Staff
First Hearing Under Racial Justice Act: Paul Woolverton of The Fayetteville Observer (NC) reports Marcus Reymond Robinson is scheduled today to be the first condemned inmate under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act to present evidence of racism in an attempt to convert his sentence to life without parole. [read post]