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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 06:22 PM Mar 2015

OOPs! Did Missouri Execute Wrong 75 Year Old Brain Damaged Guy?

Yesterday, our - "G r e a t" state of Missouri, executed a 75 year old guy with parts of his brain's missing. Though he wasn't an innocent, he most assuredly is a victim of blood thirsty justice. For, as you can see by the BuzzFeed.com NEWS article, the Prosecutors (apparently using either Boiler Plate pleadings and/or cut-n-paste's of others) - entered bogus facts and erroneous names into its opposition. For more - please see the article titled;

[center][font size=4 color=burnt red]Missouri Gets The Name Of The Man It Is Trying To Execute Wrong[/font][/center]
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As is reported, Cecil Clayton is the party to be executed. Without getting into the technicalities of "Novation", "Legal Fiction" and/or "Accommodation Endorsement" and other such non-layman legal bantering, everyone with any common sense knows that a brief, by a prosecutor seeking the death penalty, can NOT be full of errors.

Especially errors concerning the name of the party and facts/issues at hand.

Be that as it may, as you can see by the BuzzFeed pic below, the case is Cecil Clayton (it is NOT "Walter Storey" and/or "Clay&quot . As you will see, when (if) you go to the link provided, the are many Prosecutorial errors in naming the parties.

The question IS - did ANYbody (including the Supreme Court) actually read the briefs?

Here's the opening remark from the BuzzFeed article and the heading of the brief in question.

Missouri is due to execute Cecil Clayton on Tuesday for the 1996 murder of a police officer, and the state is opposing his requests at the Supreme Court seeking a stay of execution. Here is one of Missouri’s filings opposing a stay:



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[center][font size=5 color=navy blue]DID ANYBODY ACTUALLY TAKE TIME TO READ THE BRIEF[/font][/center]
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If you and I, the Innocence Project and BuzzFeed can catch the errors in names (see the actually story and the online version of the actual brief - HERE); then surely the Justices and/or their Clerks would have caught such too. Therefore, once has to ask the question that begs

- Did ANYONE (of authority/ for authority) actually take time to read the briefs.

Or was the fix in and case rigged to execute?


At the barest of minimums, the Supreme Court should have kicked the brief out and someone with common sense should have ordered the prosecutors to clean it up. HOW can a person be executed, when the party seeking to execute (murder by state) doesn't even take the time to get the name right.

Facts are Facts.

As anyone can see, there are several mentions that Storey failed this and Storey doesn't meet the standard. HENCE, the prosecutor failed to (properly) state a case against Cecil. As is evident by the BuzzFeed item of note here;



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And - then the run to hit errors continues, with the mentioning of "Clay"


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And then the wayward prosecutor banters on about "Storey" (a person already deceased) - with this remark;


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It looks like both the reviewing courts and the prosecutors have some 'splain'n to do!

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OOPs! Did Missouri Execute Wrong 75 Year Old Brain Damaged Guy? (Original Post) laserhaas Mar 2015 OP
Sounds to me like Missouri simply cut and pastes from previous denials of stays of execution. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #1
Probably...nt joeybee12 Mar 2015 #2
That may be...but that kinda begs the question doesn't it??? ret5hd Mar 2015 #3
Just as long as they make *somebody* pay for the dead cop, right? nomorenomore08 Mar 2015 #4
It's obvious that No Judge read the brief laserhaas Mar 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. Sounds to me like Missouri simply cut and pastes from previous denials of stays of execution.
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 06:52 PM
Mar 2015

Was there a prior person named Storey they likewise executed previously?

ret5hd

(20,491 posts)
3. That may be...but that kinda begs the question doesn't it???
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 06:58 PM
Mar 2015

They are killing somebody for gods sake. What the hell? My instinct tells me that if you were brought in for an old traffic warrant that had the name "Erich Bloodyass" or "Erich Blockhead" you would be more than just pissed.

Just sayin'.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
5. It's obvious that No Judge read the brief
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:23 PM
Mar 2015

Hence, the 4-3 ruling was outrageous

And tge execution cavalier

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