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    Harrel Franklin Braddy - Florida


    Quatisha Maycock, 5




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    Convicted in the 1998 murder of Quatisha Maycock.

    A judge sentenced a man to death nearly nine years after he left a five-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades and tried to kill her mother. Harrel Franklin Braddy attacked Shandelle Maycock and daughter Quatisha after he was released early from prison in another case for good behavior. He was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, attempted escape and other charges. Judge Leonard E. Glick also sentenced Braddy to three consecutive life terms on the kidnapping and burglary with an assault charges. He also got 30 years in prison on the attempted murder of Shandelle, 15 years on child neglect causing great bodily harm and five years on attempted escape. Prosecutors said Braddy tossed Maycock in the trunk of his car in 1998 and drove her to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. She never saw her child again. Braddy drove the girl to a section of Interstate 75 in the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water beside the road, prosecutors said. She was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, a medical examiner said. Authorities found the girl's body two days later, her left arm missing and her skull crushed, prosecutors said. Maycock woke up bleeding and disoriented, but managed to flag down help.

    Braddy was sentenced to death in Miami-Dade County on October 16, 2007.

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    October 16, 2007

    Man sentenced to death for leaving girl to be eaten by alligators

    MIAMI -- A judge sentenced a man to death Monday, nearly nine years after he left a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades and tried to kill her mother.

    Harrel Franklin Braddy, 58, attacked Shandelle Maycock and daughter Quatisha after he was released early from prison in another case for good behavior. He was convicted in July of first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, attempted escape and other charges.

    Judge Leonard E. Glick also sentenced Braddy to three consecutive life terms on the kidnapping and burglary with an assault charges. He also got 30 years in prison on the attempted murder of Shandelle, 15 years on child neglect causing great bodily harm and five years on attempted escape.

    Prosecutors said Braddy tossed Maycock in the trunk of his car in 1998 and drove her to a remote sugarcane field, choked her to unconsciousness and left her to die. She never saw her child again.

    Braddy drove the girl to a section of Interstate 75 in the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water beside the road, prosecutors said. She was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach, a medical examiner said.

    Authorities found the girl's body two days later, her left arm missing and her skull crushed, prosecutors said. Maycock woke up bleeding and disoriented, but managed to flag down help.

    Braddy's attorney, G.P. Della Fera, said Braddy knew Maycock from his involvement in church outreach programs.

    "I'm saddened for both families," Della Fera said.

    The case took so long because Braddy repeatedly fired his lawyers and represented himself in court sometimes.

    Maycock sobbed during the initial sentencing as she told jurors how her life without her only child would never be the same. The little girl she nicknamed Candy had just started kindergarten and loved writing her name and singing along with the church choir.

    Prosecutor Abbe Rifkin said Braddy got the appropriate sentence.

    "Due to his own horrific actions, Harrel Braddy has caused a lot of pain to a lot of people, including the people who loved him and cared for him," Rifkin said in an e-mail. "The State is grateful that Quatisha's small voice was finally heard, and that the defendant received the sentence he so rightfully earned."

    Braddy had been out of prison for a little over a year before the 1998 kidnapping. He was released early after serving 13 years of a 30-year sentence for several charges including attempted murder.

    He wore an electric shock device and knee brace, making it difficult for him to bend his knee during the sentencing. The courtroom was filled with extra police officers, all measures taken after Braddy escaped from the courthouse in 1984 when he choked a Miami-Dade County corrections officer.

    During two other escapes that year, Braddy kidnapped and robbed an assistant pastor and an elderly couple. At one point Braddy was on the run for more than a month before authorities found him in Georgia.

    After he was arrested for kidnapping the Maycocks, he tried to escape from the interrogation room by bending an air conditioning grate.

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    Oral arguments were held on the 8th of March.

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p.../oa03-11.shtml

    You can find the briefs here: http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p...174/index.html

    Braddy raises every claim under the sun. It will be interesting to see if any of them pay off considering his reprehensible act.

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    HARREL FRANKLIN BRADDY v THE STATE OF FLORIDA

    In today's Florida Supreme Court opinions, Braddy's conviction and sentence of death were AFFIRMED on direct appeal.
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    And the article

    Man who tossed 5-year-old girl to alligators will stay on death row

    Florida's Supreme Court will not overturn the conviction of a man sentenced to death for throwing a five-year-old girl into the Everglades, where she was eaten by alligators.

    According to court documents, Harrel Franklin Braddy 63, tossed Quatisha Maycock into a canal along a part of Interstate 75 known as Alligator Alley, where the animals are a common sight along the side of the road and even on the road.

    Quatisha would have been the only witness to Braddy's attempt to kill her mother, Shandelle, who had rebuffed his romantic overtures.

    On Nov. 6, 1998, Braddy choked the woman to unconsciousness twice and put her and her daughter in his car. When she came to, he stuffed her into the trunk before dumping her on U.S. Highway 27 and dumping Quatisha.

    The little girl was most likely still alive, but not conscious, when she was bitten by alligators on her head and torso, according to an autopsy. There was a blow to her head, suggesting she was thrown onto rocks.

    Braddy admitted to police that when he left Quatisha, he "knew she would probably die," the court documents said.

    Braddy was convicted in 2007 of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and kidnapping, among other charges, but appealed the decision.

    Thursday's ruling means Braddy will not get a new trial and will remain on death row.

    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...16-100240.html
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Braddy's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida
    Case Nos.: (SC07-2174)
    Decision Date: November 15, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: April 10, 2013
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    Miami Man Who Fed 5-Year-Old Girl to Alligators Gets Death Sentence Overturned

    By Jessica Lipscomb
    The Miami New Times

    In 2007, a jury convicted Liberty City native Harrel Braddy of kidnapping a 5-year-old and leaving her to die on the side of Interstate 75, where she was eaten alive by alligators. Eleven jurors believed Braddy should be put to death, but one disagreed.

    It was an important holdout: The split decision means that ten years later, Braddy will be granted one more chance to avoid the death penalty.

    Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court vacated Braddy's death sentence, calling it unconstitutional under a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that invalidated the state's sentencing practices. Although it's possible that Braddy could be resentenced to death, he is now entitled to return to court so his sentence can be reconsidered.

    The 40-page ruling recalls gruesome details of Quatisha Maycock's murder and the attempted murder of her 22-year-old mother, who survived the attack and later testified against Braddy. On November 6, 1998, Braddy put the mother and daughter in his rented Lincoln Town Car and took them on a horrifying ride to Broward County, where Shandelle Maycock was thrown out of the car and choked unconscious, prosecutors say. Quatisha's body was found three days later in a canal off Interstate 75 near mile marker 34.

    Though the official cause of her death was blunt force trauma to the head consistent with being thrown onto rocks near the canal, the medical examiner said she was still alive when an alligator bit her head and torso. At the time the girl's body was recovered, her left arm had also been ripped off by alligators.

    Questioned by detectives, Braddy gave inconsistent stories about why he left the girl in the Everglades in the middle of the night, but admitted he "knew she would probably die." At one point, he told investigators he was worried Quatisha would tell people what he had done to her mother.

    Following a two-week trial in 2007, Circuit Judge Leonard E. Glick agreed with the jury's recommendation to send Braddy, a dangerous felon with previous convictions for armed burglary and attempted first-degree murder of a correctional officer, to death row.

    "The defendant... caused this 5-year-old to die, alone in the wilderness, and to be mutilated by monsters of the swamp," Glick wrote in his sentencing order. "Adults are supposed to protect children from monsters; they are not supposed to be the monsters themselves."

    Braddy appealed his case from prison, but Florida Supreme Court justices denied his petition in 2012.

    The decision to vacate Braddy's death sentence was supported by all but one justice, Charles Canady, who says he does not believe the 2016 Supreme Court decision should be applied retroactively. A second justice, Alan Lawson, says he does not agree with the Supreme Court ruling but will uphold it as the current law of the land.

    http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fl...gators-9423943
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    Things such as this are emblematic of what a failure our justice system is for many victims and their loved ones. A proper justice system would have disposed of a monster like this long ago. The death sentence he arbitrarily and cruelly gave that girl was definitely a violation of her rights. Hurst is one of the biggest abominations in recent constitutional law.
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    I wonder why it's taking so long for him to be resentenced?
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    It doesn't matter anyway. He's in his 70s. He's never going to be executed.
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