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25 Jan 2007, 9:04 am
From the Fayetteville Observer: A Wake County judge this morning ordered a halt to the execution of Fayetteville's Marcus Reymond Robinson, who was scheduled to die at 2 a.m. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 10:00 am by Nathan Koppel
North Carolina Department of Correction Marcus Reymond Robinson Marcus Reymond Robinson was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for robbing and killing a teenager in North Carolina in 1991. [read post]
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]
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]
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]
22 Apr 2012, 10:09 pm by zshapiro
A North Carolina Judge revoked the death penalty for Marcus Reymond Robinson and sentenced him to life in prison without parole after finding that “race was a materially, practically and statistically significant factor in the decision to exercise preemptory challenges during jury selection by prosecutors …. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:51 pm by Joe Palazzolo
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, 8:33 am by Steve Hall
A Cumberland County judge issued a historic ruling Friday morning, finding that racial bias played a role in the trial and sentencing of death row inmate Marcus Reymond Robinson. [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]
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]
20 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm by Lovechilde
Weeks of Cumberland County Superior Court said that “race was a materially, practically and statistically significant factor in the decision to exercise peremptory challenges during jury selection by prosecutors” at the time of the trial of the inmate, Marcus Reymond Robinson. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 8:03 am by Ashby Jones
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]
25 Jan 2007, 10:02 am
Citing a law from 1909 that requires the governor and the council of state to approve any change in the execution process, Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ordered Thursday the executions of Marcus Reymond Robinson and James Edward Thomas be halted until they do so. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 9:35 am by Steve Hall
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]
26 Jul 2011, 3:28 pm by CJLF Staff
First Death Row Hearing Under Racial Justice Act: Paul Woolverton and Gregory Phillips of The Fayetteville Observer (NC) report Marcus Reymond Robinson will be the first North Carolina death row inmate to argue to a judge that his sentence should be converted to life without parole under the Racial Justice Act. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 9:30 am by Steve Hall
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]
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]
16 Feb 2012, 6:09 am by Jeralyn
The case involves Marcus Reymond Robinson, an African American, who was sentenced to death for killing a 17 year old white man. [read post]