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Marcus Reymond Robinson is a convicted murderer waiting out the remainder of his days on North Carolina’s death row. He hopes his time there will be limited, not by execution but by a commutation to a life sentence. He is the first to challenge his death sentence on the basis of racial bias in jury selection, something that’s possible in N.C. due to the Racial Justice Act. [read more...]
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 at 9:52 am and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The Racial Justice Act is only two years old and it may be in its final days. The state Senate “rewrote” the law this week and it is now in the hands of Governor Bev Perdue who has released no indication of whether or not she will sign it. Perdue signed the act into law in 2009, but then so did the Senate. [read more...]

This entry was posted on Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at 10:32 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.