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Federal Appeal Court ruled this Alabama prosecutors He violated the constitutional rights of the black man who was convicted of execution in 1990, noting that during the trial of black people was dismissed from the jury.
62-year-old Michael Schockwell is entitled to re-examination after the Monday ruling at the Board of Three Judges at the 11th District Appeal Court. He was convicted of murdering former Montgomery Sheriff Isaia Harris in 1988 when he was 26.
According to 2-1, the board ruled that the Alabama prosecutor’s office violated the 14th amendment of Salvel, “repeatedly and purposefully” rejecting potential black jurors, which were more sympathetic because they shared the same race.
The prosecutor’s office claimed that Harris’s wife hired Sakkuell to kill Harris because she wanted to cover the novel she had and raised her husband’s insurance money.
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62-year-old Michael Schockwell is entitled to re-examination after the ruling of the three-suburban board at the 11th District Appeal Court. (Department of Academic Academy of Sciences through AP)
There were no witnesses in the shooting, and Sakkwell initially told the officials in the video that he had killed Harris. During the trial, Sakkuel testified that the officers threatened to beat and kill him before recognizing and deprived him of food and water.
Then shockwell testified that the man who had a connection with his wife Harris killed A former sheriff. Sockwell also denied that if -something received money to kill Harris.
Sockwell lawyers say he has a low IQ that eliminates the death penalty.
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Sockwell lawyers say he has a low IQ that eliminates the death penalty. (AP)
The juror voted for 7-5 for the verdict of Sakkuel for a lifetime, but the judge refused the decision and sentenced him to death. Alabama no longer allows the judge to abolish the jury in the capital.
Lawyers Sockwell appealed against the decisionclaiming that the prosecutor’s office used unconstitutional the race as the basis for the choice of jury and rejected 80% of potential black jurors, which were entitled to his lawsuit, compared to only 20% of white jurors. The appeal pointed to the prosecutor’s notes, who rejected one jury, whom she called “a black male, approximately twenty -year -old, which would put him very close to the same race, sex and age.”
Judge Robert J. The luck, appointed by President Donald Trump, disagreeing, claiming that the prosecutor noted the race of potential white jurors, which, according to the judge, stated that the race was not a disqualified factor for the jury in the case of Salvel.
The juror voted for 7-5 for the verdict of Sakkuel for a lifetime, but the judge refused the decision and sentenced him to death. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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The opinion written by Judge Charles Wilson, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, also referred to four other cases leading to the case of Savkvel, in which the state prosecutor appears to illegally dismissed black jurors based on his race, demonstrating the “sample”.
The luck withdrew the statement that the prosecutor had a discrimination scheme, saying that 17% of the jury in the Sockwell trial were black with a jury pool, which was 24% black to start.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.