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    Michael Bernard Lewis - California Death Row


    Michael Bernard Lewis

    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death in Riverside County on May 1, 1998 for killing Patricia Miller, of Moreno Valley, on August 2, 1991. Miller's daughter, then 13, discovered her mother's body on the living room floor of her apartment. Miller's throat was slashed after she had been strangled to unconsciousness and raped. The link to Lewis came through DNA evidence. Prosecutors said Lewis probably killed Miller after he raped her to keep her from reporting the crime and sending him back to prison. Lewis previously had served two years in prison for raping and choking a Venice woman who survived the attack and identified him to police.

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    July 19, 2009

    CA Supreme Court Deny Appeal for Michael Lewis for the 1991 murder of Patricia Miller

    Justices unanimously upheld the conviction and death sentence of Michael Bernard Lewis for the 1991 murder of Patricia Miller, who was raped, strangled, and had her throat cut. The defense had argued that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of a rape committed by Lewis 4 years earlier, but the chief justice said the crimes were so similar, and sufficiently close in time—especially since Lewis was in prison for most of the intervening period—that the probative value outweighed any prejudice.

    http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/updates.html

    Opinion here:

    http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions...ts/S069959.PDF

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    On February 16, 2010, Lewis filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...5TMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    On February 22, 2010, the US Supreme Court denied Lewis' certiorari petition on direct appeal.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/09-7918.htm

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