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    Woman with low IQ wants bench trial in murder case


    By Kevin Grasha
    Cincinnati.com

    An intellectually disabled woman charged with murder in her daughter’s death is seeking a trial before a judge, her attorney said Wednesday.

    “My client has been adamant she wants to have a bench trial,” attorney Will Welsh told Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman.

    Welsh also said he is discussing a possible plea with prosecutors. The trial is scheduled to begin May 1.

    Andrea Bradley, 30, faces charges including murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Glenara. Bradley was not in the courtroom Wednesday.

    Bradley’s onetime boyfriend and Glenara’s father, Glen Bates, was convicted of murder last year and sentenced to death.

    Prosecutors say both Bradley and Bates were responsible for the death of Glenara, who was starved, burned, beaten and ultimately slammed against a door frame by Bates before she died in March 2015.

    Bradley initially faced the death penalty, but experts determined she is intellectually disabled, with an IQ in the mid-60s, below the threshold of 75.

    The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that executing people with intellectual disabilities violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

    At the time of the killing, Bradley was living with Bates, Glenara and five other children in a rented house in East Walnut Hills. Bates is the father of three of Bradley’s children, including a child Bradley gave birth to while in jail, awaiting trial.

    http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...case/97035664/
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    Mom of 'tortured' toddler will stand trial despite low IQ of 67

    Andrea Bradley won't face death penalty

    CINCINNATI -- Andrea Bradley, the mother of Glenara Bates -- the two-year-old who police say was tortured to death -- will stand trial but won't face the death penalty.

    Tests show that Bradley has an IQ of 67, below the threshold for the death penalty. In October, her attorneys asked for a continuance so that they could negotiate a plea deal, but Bradley blurted out -- in open court -- that she didn't care.

    "It don't matter what I want," Bradley said. "Give the world what they want. If they want the death penalty, give it to 'em. I don't care."

    Bradley also chose not to take a plea deal that would have given her 15 years behind bars in May. She's charged with aggravated murder. The girl's father, Glen Bates, was sentenced to death.

    Hamilton County officials say Bradley and Bates tortured and neglected the 2-year-old girl so severely she died.

    The deputy coroner who performed the toddler's autopsy testified duringGlen Bates' trial in September called Glenara's death "one of the worst I've ever seen."

    Hamilton County Deputy Coroner Dr. Jennifer Schott said Glenara Bates weighed only 13 pounds when she died, less than half the average weight of a 2-year-old. Schott also testified that Glenara was covered in "C-shaped scars," determined to be bite marks.

    Schott also highlighted severe diaper rash that extended from Glenara's lower back to her thighs. During Bates' taped interrogation, he said Glenara was often made to sleep in a downstairs bathtub because of a bed-wetting problem. Prosecutors said the tub was filled with feces.

    The deputy coroner said she believes Glenara could have survived had she been taken to a hospital.

    http://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/mom-o...e-low-iq-of-67
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    Mom accused in child's murder asks for bench trial

    Police: Andrea Bradley's 2-year-old daughter beaten, starved

    By WLWT Digital Staff

    CINCINNATI — For at least the second time, a mother charged with aggravated murder in connection with her 2-year-old daughter's death rejected a plea deal Monday.

    After discussing a deal with attorneys for hours Monday morning, Bradley rejected the deal and requested a bench trial in the death of her 2-year-old daughter.

    The trial by judge is now scheduled to begin Jan. 3.

    Bradley's trial was postponed last year after questions emerged about her overall mental competence and ability to assist in her own defense.

    Earlier this year, the judge determined that she was fit to stand trial, though her IQ is below the court-determined threshold that would allow the state to put her to death.

    Her daughter, Glenara Bates, was starved, beaten and bitten before she died in March 2015. She weighed 13 pounds when she died.

    The child's father, Glen Bates, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2016.

    http://www.wlwt.com/article/mom-accu...trial/14012757
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    Andrea Bradley sentenced to 15 years to life in 'torture' death of 2-year-old daughter

    Glenara Bates died in 2015


    By WCPO News Staff

    CINCINNATI -- Andrea Bradley had tears streaming down her face when she was sentenced in the "torture" death of her 2-year-old daughter Wednesday.

    Bradley got 15 years to life after pleading no contest earlier this month.

    Bates was charged with aggravated murder, endangering children and murder as a special felony in the 2015 death of Glenara Bates. The deputy coroner who performed the toddler's autopsy said Glenara's death "one of the worst I've ever seen."

    Prosecutors said Bradley and the girl's father, Glen Bates, tortured and neglected the 2-year-old so severely she died. Glen Bates was sentenced to death in October 2016.

    The jury in Bates' trial found he was "the principal offender" in Glenara's torture.

    Bradley couldn't get the death penalty because tests showed that she has an IQ of 67, which is below the threshold for the death penalty.

    Bradley has been in and out of court for two years. She rejected multiple plea deals that would have reduced her sentence to 15 years.

    After her attorneys asked for a continuance following her second plea rejection, Bradley blurted out -- in open court -- that she didn't care about a deal.

    "It don't matter what I want," Bradley said. "Give the world what they want. If they want the death penalty, give it to 'em. I don't care."

    Bradley's plea of no contest is an alternative to a guilty or not guilty plea: A defendant who pleads "no contest" does not admit guilt, but does admit the information in the indictment is accurate, according to the Ohio Bar Association.

    Hamilton County Deputy Coroner Dr. Jennifer Schott said Glenara weighed only 13 pounds when she died, less than half the average weight of a 2-year-old.

    Schott also testified that Glenara was covered in "C-shaped scars," determined to be bite marks.

    Schott said the child had severe diaper rash that extended from her lower back to her thighs.

    During Bates' taped interrogation, he said Glenara was often made to sleep in a downstairs bathtub because of a bed-wetting problem. Prosecutors said the tub was filled with feces.

    Schott said she believes Glenara could have survived had she been taken to a hospital.

    https://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/andr...r-old-daughter
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    Toddler's killer to fight death sentence in Ohio Supreme Court

    By Cameron Knight
    Cincinnati.com

    The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments next week from a man appealing his conviction in the 2015 killing of his own 2-year-old daughter, Glenara Bates.

    Glen Bates, 36, was sentenced to death by a Hamilton County jury nearly two and half years ago.

    In the 155-page document outlining his appeal, Bates and his lawyers outlined more than a dozen different errors they believe the court made in either his trial, conviction or sentencing.

    Glenara was already cold when Andrea Bradley, the girl's mother, carried her into Children's Hospital in March 2015. According to prosecutors, she had no muscle mass. Her body was covered with bite marks, bruises and marks from being whipped with a belt. She also had stitches in her head that were done with a needle and thread, apparently at home.

    Bradley would go on to plead no contest for murder and child endangering.

    Bates' conviction hinged on the testimony Glenara’s half-sister, who told the court she witnessed abuse and saw Bates slam the 2-year-old against a door frame by her legs.

    Bates' lawyers tried to convince a jury Glenara could have been abused by someone else as there was no physical evidence connecting him to the abuse.

    Among Bates' arguments to the Supreme Court was that three of his jurors demonstrated racial bias on their jury questionnaires. His legal team said one juror answered that she didn't feel comfortable around some blacks and "strongly agreed" that black people tend to be more violent than other races.

    "Despite possessing these jurors’ written expressions of racial bias," Glen Bates’s defense attorneys inexplicably failed to explore these issues on voir dire, failed to strike jurors who expressed racial prejudice," an amicus brief by the NAACP said. "And thus [they] failed to protect Mr. Bates’s constitutional right to an impartial jury."

    Bates also said his rights were violated because the state failed to produce enough evidence, the court would not let him switch lawyers and jurors were repeatedly shown gruesome autopsy photos.

    The legal team also argued Ohio's death penalty procedures and laws are unconstitutional.

    Oral arguments will begin Feb. 19 at 9 a.m. at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus.

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...rt/2849306002/
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    Oral arguments: Juror with 'extreme bias' served on death penalty case

    By Kevin Grasha
    Cincinnati.com

    Attorneys for a Cincinnati man now on death row for killing his young daughter told the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday that he was convicted by a jury that had been contaminated by racial bias.

    A key issue is an answer one juror gave on a sworn questionnaire before jury selection began in the 2016 trial of Glen Bates, who is black. Question 72 asked jurors to indicate if they believed some racial or ethnic groups are more violent than others.

    The juror, a white woman, checked "Strongly Agree." Asked to explain further, she wrote, "Blacks."

    "She entered the jury room with her thumb on the scale for guilt," Alexis Hoag, senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, told justices during oral arguments.

    The juror's answer, Hoag added, represented "extreme bias," and allowing her to serve in a death penalty case "undermines" the integrity of the justice system.

    Bates, 36, was convicted in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court of aggravated murder and child endangering in the beating and starvation death of his 2-year-old daughter, Glenara. His girlfriend, Andrea Bradley, pleaded guilty and is serving 15 years to life in prison.

    Hoag said Bates' attorneys had been deficient by not seeking to remove the woman during jury selection for her apparent racial bias.

    "Defense counsel, if operating competently, would have removed her," Hoag said. She added that there could not have been a strategic reason to allow the woman on the jury.

    Justice Melody Stewart asked Hoag if one juror's beliefs could truly prejudice the entire panel.

    Hoag responded that one juror "does make all the difference," and that she believed the entire jury panel "struggled" with their verdict during approximately three hours of deliberations.

    Ronald Springman, who heads the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office's appellate division, said jurors were told they had to set aside any bias or prejudice in deciding the case.

    Springman said Bates' attorneys asked them as a group if they could be fair and impartial. All said they could.

    "They knew racial bias was not supposed to enter this case, in any way, shape or form," he said.

    The state, he told the justices, "doesn't want biased jurors."

    Springman also argued that the high court ruled in previous cases that the decision to ask questions during jury selection about racial prejudice "is a choice best left to defendant's counsel."

    Another attorney arguing on behalf of Bates, Todd Barstow, noted that two other jurors, on the same questionnaire, agreed that members of some racial and ethnic groups tend to be more violent. But the jurors – one of whom was a black woman – didn't indicate which groups they believed were more violent.

    Any time a juror shows some kind of racial bias, Barstow said, that person shouldn't sit on a jury.

    When asked by Justice Judith French if there was legal precedent for that, Barstow replied: "I think it's automatic."

    Springman argued that to reverse the verdict and sentence, the justices would have to find that "there was no possibility from the beginning that Mr. Bates could have had a fair trial."

    "I don't think we get anywhere near that," he said. "Not even close."

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...se/2914183002/
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    Court rejects death sentence for dad in toddler's death

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    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court has reversed the conviction and death sentence given to a man accused of beating and starving his 2-year-old daughter.

    Glen Bates was sentenced to die in 2016 after being convicted of killing Glenara Bates a year earlier.

    Attorneys for the 37-year-old Bates, who is black, argued that Bates' attorney at trial improperly failed to object to the seating of a racially biased juror.

    The court ruled 5-2 Thursday in favor of that argument and returned the case to Hamilton County for a new trial. Prosecutor Joe Deters is reviewing the ruling.

    https://www.wfmj.com/story/41826234/...toddlers-death

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    Well, heck. BOTH of these parents should be on death row. The daddy playing “games” of biting that poor baby and dropping her on her head from a height of 6 feet. Please. He knew exactly what he was doing. And so did the mother. I don’t care if her IQ was 67 or even if it was 40. She knew what she was doing was wrong. And then family members come out of the woodwork to sue? Where were THEY when all of this was happening? I despise all of them.

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    More than 2 years since reversal and remand for new trial. What is the status?

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    Local father pleads to lesser charges for daughter's murder after conviction overturned

    CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local man who starved and tortured his two-year old daughter is now off of death row.

    Glen bates pleaded guilty this month to charges of involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault and child endangering after his original conviction was overturned.

    In an agreement with the prosecutor he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

    A jury convicted Bates of her murder and he was sentenced to death.

    Bates' attorney did not question the juror about race or her answers on the questionnaire. The attorney could have challenged her but failed to strike her.

    Bates’ former girlfriend, Andrea Bradley, who was the girl's mother, pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges.

    https://local12.com/amp/news/local/l...y-manslaughter
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