GIST:A federal appeals court has struck down a lower court judge's stay of execution in the case of a man accused of killing two Randolph County jailers.
The execution of Michael Tisius is back on for Tuesday after the ruling Friday by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal district court judge ruled earlier this week that the lethal injection should be delayed while lawyers argue over new information about a juror in Tisus' sentencing.
According to the stay order, lawyers for Tisius uncovered new information about a juror who had problems reading and writing English. The state disputed that those issues caused affected the sentencing verdict and appealed.
The appeals court's ruling said Tisius and his lawyers did raise an issue that was sufficient enough to establish his innocence and that the claim should have been brought up in an earlier challenge.
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Tisius was convicted of shooting and killing two Randolph County jailers during an attempt to free a friend in 2000. Tisius was convicted at 19 years old and has been detained since his conviction in 2001.
Advocacy groups delivered letters to Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday seeking clemency for Tisius.
The entire story can be read at:
https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2023/06/02/court-ends-execution-delay-in-randolph-county-double-murder/
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.”
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