The Perpetrator ... The Victim ... The Judge
Posted on 04/20/2012 10:24:23 PM PDT by Zakeet
In a landmark ruling, a North Carolina judge vacated the death penalty Friday of a convicted murderer, 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.
In a 167-page order harshly critical of prosecutors, Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks said they "intentionally used the race of (jury pool) members as a significant factor in decisions to exercise peremptory strikes in capital cases." He ruled that discrimination was a factor not only in the case Weeks heard involving convicted murderer Marcus Reymond Robinson, who is black, but also in capital cases involving black defendants across North Carolina.
The ruling was the first under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, passed in 2009, which allows judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole in cases where defendants prove racial bias in jury selection. Prosecutors fought the law, calling it a back-door attempt to overturn the death penalty.
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Prosecutors have 60 days to appeal Weeks' ruling. Republicans, who control the state Legislature, have attempted to repeal the Racial Justice Act but have been vetoed by Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue.
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Robinson was convicted of killing 17-year-old Erik Tornblom with a shotgun blast to the face during a robbery that netted $27.
Tornblom's stepmother, Patricia Tornblom, and his father, Richard Tornblom, have bitterly opposed the act and said earlier this year that Robinson should be executed. They sat in silence Friday as Weeks read his ruling.
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The Perpetrator ... The Victim ... The Judge
I love the racism of this judge who apparently thinks that whites can’t come up with a fair verdict because of their skin color. He should be in prison himself.
So the far left lunatic media will just run with this and call it “racial grounds” as opposed to how they have convicted Zimmerman? The hypocrisy is vomit inducing.
“In a landmark ruling...”
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“Landmark” is right.
We are forging new frontiers in arrogant, open, in-your-face black racism.
Downward spirals once great America.
We’ll be getting rid of Purdue later this year, and then we’ll get rid of this abominable law.
The black thug criminal murdered a person in cold blood. How is this a systematic conspiracy against the black man?
You execute murderers. Race has no issue.
As for jurors being stricken, this has gone on as long as we’ve had juries. BOTH SIDES get to dismiss a certain number of jurors.
We no longer have a stable judiciary based in law in this country. It’s based in personal opinions of particular judges. That’s not a system of justice. All judges that exhibit this behavior need to be impeached and in certain cases, such as this, jailed.
Well said Secret Agent Man. It is the crime that is at issue, not a person’s race (unless it is black on white and Eric Holder is on it).
There are both white and black juries I wouldn’t trust with a butter knife, and there are white and black juries I would trust with my life.
It is the judges and trial lawyers I don’t trust, re OJ.
Punish the crime, not the race of the perp.
Judge is an idiot and should be removed and disbarred.
Did the convict commit the crime? YES
Was he convicted ina court of law? YES
Was he sentenced to death? YES
Then he should be executed.
It’s pretty clear that the judge believes black jurors approve of cold-blooded murder when the victim is white and the accused is black.
play the race card
stupid racist SFB judicial POS
"Robinson was thereafter taken into custody and properly advised of his Miranda rights, which he waived. After initially denying any involvement in the murder, Robinson admitted that he and Williams had watched Erik Tornblom enter a store.
While Tornblom was in the store, Robinson pulled out a sawed-off shotgun, which had been concealed in his clothes, and gave it to Williams. As Erik left the store, Robinson and Williams asked for a ride.
As soon as they entered the car, Williams put the gun to the back of Erik Tornblom’s neck and forced him to drive to a location that Robinson and Williams ordered.
In his confession, Robinson stated that "the boy kept begging and pleading for us not to hurt him, because he didn’t have any money." After ordering Tornblom out of the car, he was made to lie down. According to Robinson, Williams then shot Tornblom in the face with the shotgun.
The black male was identified as Roderick Williams and was thereafter arrested and named Marcus Robinson as the person involved with him in the murder of Erik Tornblom.
Robinson was thereafter taken into custody and properly advised of his Miranda rights, which he waived. After initially denying any involvement in the murder, Robinson admitted that he and Williams had watched Erik Tornblom enter a store.
While Tornblom was in the store, Robinson pulled out a sawed-off shotgun, which had been concealed in his clothes, and gave it to Williams. As Erik left the store, Robinson and Williams asked for a ride.
As soon as they entered the car, Williams put the gun to the back of Erik Tornblom’s neck and forced him to drive to a location that Robinson and Williams ordered.
In his confession, Robinson stated that "the boy kept begging and pleading for us not to hurt him, because he didn’t have any money." After ordering Tornblom out of the car, he was made to lie down. According to Robinson, Williams then shot Tornblom in the face with the shotgun. "
If Mr. Obama is defeated in November I expect him to pardon each and every black person in every jail and prison in the USA and it’s territories before leving office.
There is no equality under the law anymore because the rule of law is dead.
And a few Muzzies.
We’re becoming South Africa.
I'm a little surprised the father didn't stand up, point at the judge, and yell, "You're a piece of sh*t."
No they won’t get rid of any law called the “Racial Justice Act” or whatever it is. They’d be called racists for that, and I doubt NC Republicans have any more backbone than their national counterparts.
Really, whites have little self-respect left. We don’t want to fight for ourselves against the forces directed by the Left through blacks in positions of power.
If it's a "Jury of your Peers", NO jury of 12 should contain more than 1 black Juror, reflecting the population across the USA. This will not stop the Zimmerman jury from being 75% black, because the PROSECUTION WILL CHALLENGE any white Juror, you can be sure, to stack the Jury with welfare parasites, hoodie-clad 'hood types, etc. Justice now consists of "if you're black, you can use the Race Card", if you're white, you have no hope.
This is only the start.
Wait until the courts are full of muslim judges.
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