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December 1, 2005

Calif. Court Denies Clemency for Stanley Tookie William



Calif. Court Denies Clemency for Stanley Tookie William
Wednesday, the California Supreme Court turned down a bid by defense lawyers to reopen the Stanley Tookie William case without explanation, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Defense attorneys had petitioned the high court earlier this month, alleging shoddy forensic testing and other errors may have wrongly sent Williams to San Quentin State Prison, where he is scheduled die by injection Dec. 13.

The high court voted 4-2 to deny Williams' petition.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could still intervene reports Seattle Times. He has agreed to hear Williams' clemency petition, and if clemency is granted it would commute Williams' sentence to life without parole. Religious, political and entertainment figures - from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Bianca Jagger - are urging the governor to grant clemency to Williams because of anti-gang activities, including books and speeches, that he has undertaken in the past decade reports Los Angeles Times.

Schwarzenegger has scheduled a closed-door meeting at his Sacramento office Dec. 8.

Nathan Barankin, spokesman for California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer, whose office opposed the defense's motion, said he was pleased by the outcome. "The court reached the correct conclusion. The extraordinary relief Williams sought is reserved only for those cases that have legal merit; his didn't," Barankin said.

HISTORY

In 1971, Stanley Tookie Williams co-founded the infamous street gang the Crips. In 1981 he was convicted of the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Thsai-Shai Chen Yang, Yen-I Yang and Yee Chen Lin during two separate robberies. During a his trial, which unfolded against a backdrop of anti-gang hysteria, the prosecutor likened Stanley Tookie Williams to "a Bengal tiger" and his South Central home a jungle. He was found guilty by an all-white jury after all prospective black jurors were removed from the pool reports Yahoo News

The California Supreme Court, federal trial and appeals courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court have already ruled against Stanley Tookie Williams in earlier appeals.



 

 

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Williams was not convicted by an all white jury. The defense of Williams shamelessly perpetuates this lie trying to cry 'racism' when all else fails, in spite of open records that show multiple conflicting defense tactics.

SF Chronicle reports: (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/01/EDG5TG04SF1.DTL&hw=tookie&sn=001&sc=1000)
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. . . the Death Row inmate claimed in an interview Monday with MSNBC's fatuous Rita Cosby that he was convicted by an "all-white jury." That's not true, and Williams knows it.

In fact, Williams' own clemency lawyers have stipulated that the jury that convicted him in the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Yee Chen Lin during two armed robberies was not all-white. In the clemency petition, Williams' latest set of lawyers argued that prosecutor Robert Martin had kicked all African Americans off the jury. When prosecutors produced a death certificate that showed that juror William McLurkin was black, the lawyers noted in a reply that it doesn't matter if McLurkin was black or part-black, because he "looked Filipino."

Hello. That's not white. Williams' own Web site (www.tookie.com) features a fact sheet that, while asserting that no African Americans were on the jury, stipulates a Filipino and Latino served on the jury.

. . . "Let me add a few things you may not know: The not all-white jury convicted Williams after his alibi defense crumbled. Also, jurors had learned of Williams' plans for an armed escape from jail. The jury foreman testified that when the guilty verdict was announced, Williams mouthed this threat to the panel: "I'm going to get each and every one of you mother -- ."

Over the years as he appealed his conviction, his appellate lawyers claimed that Williams did not receive adequate counsel because his trial lawyer did not use a diminished capacity defense, as Williams was brain-damaged -- due to drug abuse, mental illness and head injuries. An appellate judge weighed in, "A mental-state defense would have contradicted (the alibi) defense by conceding petitioner's presence at the scenes of the murders." Despite numerous appeals, various courts -- including the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals -- continued to uphold his conviction.

His lawyers now laud Williams because he "refuses to make a false confession, knowing it could benefit him penally, (which) shows the strength of his character." What, then, of his character on the brain-damage dodge -- an odd defense for a man whom supporters hail as a jailhouse philosopher and co-author of children's books?

I think that he should be release due to the years he surve why because he is human as any body else.He should be on house arrest or he should have vote from the gov.He suffered enough hail from the court and death row.Give the man a chance to speak for him self and hear his sied of the story,and his opion it want hurt to listen.Black and white is nothing but a skin color.as man once said let it be as it should and it shall be the truth.

Flip the switch already!!!!

this is bogus as hell even though he killed long ago in the past no one seems to care about the good things he's done.

the speakings that he used in his messages to kids were so powerful that they stopped wars does that count for any thing at all.

arnold used to be my favorite actor and alot more people than me looked up to him, but for him to not care at all about a person's life is just rediculus. he's supposed to be a leader but it seems to me that all he's done so far was talk.

really what im trying to get at is what has he really done. tookie has done more locked up than arnold has done being a leader. next time schwarzeneger think about something before you past judgement

 



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