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    Grayland Winbush - California Death Row

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    Sentenced to death in Alameda County on July 11, 2003 for the murder of Erika Beeson on December 22, 1995. The jury also determined that his partner in the slaying, Norman Patterson, should spend the rest of his days in prison with no chance of release. The evidence showed both men were guilty of beating, choking and stabbing 20-year-old Beeson to death, while robbing her in her Claremont Avenue apartment.

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    The prosecution filed a response to Winbush's initial brief on July 11, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S117489

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    Winbush's case has been fully briefed on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court since April 16, 2014.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S117489

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    On November 1, 2016, oral argument will be heard in Winbush's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/c...s/SNOV116A.PDF

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    State high court upholds death sentence in 1996 Oakland murder

    The California Supreme Court in San Francisco today unanimously upheld the death sentence of a man who murdered a 20-year-old woman in her Oakland apartment in 1996.

    Grayland Winbush, 40, was convicted in Alameda County Superior Court in 2003 and given the death penalty for murdering Erika Beeson during a robbery on the evening of Dec. 22, 1996.

    Beeson was found beaten, strangled with a belt and stabbed. Her boyfriend’s shotgun, some marijuana and other items were missing.

    Winbush, then 19, who grew up in South Berkeley, had been released 10 days earlier from the California Youth Authority, where he spent four years in custody after being arrested for driving a stolen car.

    Police later found that Winbush’s ankle monitoring bracelet was disconnected between the evening of the murder and Christmas Day.

    Beeson’s boyfriend, Mario Botello, and other witnesses at the trial testified that Winbush had asked Botello several times to get him a gun he could use in a robbery, and that Botello sought to put him off. Botello was out Christmas shopping at the time of the slaying.

    Winbush’s brother-in-law, Norman Patterson, who admitted being present at the murder, was tried and convicted in the same trial and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    After being told of Patterson’s statement and waiving his right to have a lawyer present, Winbush confessed to police that he had carried out the stabbing, but said Patterson participated in the strangling. The confession was played for the jury at the trial.

    In his appeal, Winbush claimed his confession was coerced. But the state high court’s seven justices said they agreed with the trial judge’s conclusion that the admission was not forced.

    After reviewing the evidence concerning the confession, “We independently conclude defendant’s statements were not coerced by express or implied promises of leniency,” Justice Carol Corrigan wrote for the court.

    The panel also rejected Winbush’s appeal claims of errors in jury selection

    http://www.sfexaminer.com/state-high...akland-murder/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    On November 7, 2016, Winbush filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...NTQCAgCg%3D%3D

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Winbush's certiorari petition on direct appeal.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California
    Case Numbers: (S117489)
    Decision Date: January 26, 2017
    Rehearing Denied: March 29, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-5017.html

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