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    Caleb Corrothers - Mississippi Death Row



    Trial set for 2011 in double slaying

    The trial of a man charged in the deaths of Lafayette County father and son last year is scheduled for March 21, 2011.

    The Oxford Eagle reports that Circuit Court Judge Andrew Howorth set the date after defense attorneys requested more time to prepare for trial.

    Caleb Corrothers is charged with two counts of capital murder in the July 18, 2009 shooting deaths of Frank and Taylor Clark at their home. Corrothers also is charged with aggravated assault in the wounding of Tonya Clark, the wife and mother.

    Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

    Corrothers was being held without bond at the Lafayette County jail.

    http://nems360.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Trial+set+for+2011+in+double+slaying%20&id=9373715 &instance=lead_story_left_column

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    Lafayette Slaying Trial Will Be Moved

    A judge has agreed to move the trial of a man charged in the deaths of a father and son in Lafayette County.

    The Oxford Eagle reports a judge asked prosecutors and the defense to suggest counties where the trial may be held if they can't agree on a location.

    The defense asked for the change because of media coverage of the case, especially because Corrothers is black and the victims were white.

    Corrothers is charged with two counts of capital murder in the 2009 shooting deaths of Frank and Taylor Clark. Corrothers also is charged with aggravated assault in the wounding of Tonya Clark, the wife and mother.

    http://wcbi.com/article.php?subactio...rom=&ucat=2,4&

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    Jury selection scheduled for double murder trial

    Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of a man charged in the deaths of a father and son in Lafayette County.

    The Oxford Eagle reports the members of the jury will be selected from Lee County. The trial is being held in Oxford.

    Caleb Corrothers is charged with two counts of capital murder in the 2009 shooting deaths of Frank and Taylor Clark. Corrothers also is charged with aggravated assault in the wounding of Tonya Clark, the wife and mother.

    Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

    Corrothers is being held at the county jail without bond.

    http://www.newstimes.com/default/art...#ixzz1MZ7H0OGM

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    Shooting victim IDs Carrothers at trial

    OXFORD (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Tonya Clark on Wednesday described a fast-and-furious home invasion that left her wounded and her husband, Frank, and their younger son, Taylor, dead.

    Caleb Carrothers is charged with two counts of capital murder and one count of aggravated assault in the July 11, 2009, event. If guilty, Carrothers could face the death penalty.

    When Tonya Clark questioned the fleeing gunman as to why he had "destroyed my family," she said he answered that Taylor, who was known to sell marijuana, had owed him $5,000.

    In the courtroom, Clark positively identified Carrothers as the attacker even while admitting she had been unable to pick him out from a photo lineup soon after the shootings.

    "I was in a state of shock," she said.

    Josh Clark, Taylor's older brother, said he was outside smoking when Taylor drove up, ran into the house, quickly followed by his passenger. Despite having had a brain injury in a wreck just months before the attack, Josh said he had quickly identified Carrothers in the photo lineup.

    Lafayette County Sheriff's Investigator Scott Mills told of evidence found at the crime scene and in Taylor's abandoned car. Defense attorneys emphasized that no fingerprints tied Carrothers to any of the evidence.

    Prosecutors played a recording of an interview among Carrothers, Mills and Investigator Alan Wilbourn several days after the killings. Carrothers' narrative of his doings on the weekend of the Clarks' deaths was at times vague and at other times detailed. Mills said most details, including a fight in which the defendant claimed to have been grazed by gunfire, was not corroborated by witnesses Carrothers had named or by physical evidence.

    Video from an Oxford convenience store showed a man who appeared to be Carrothers, scratched and shirtless, early on the morning after the killings. A clerk testified that the man had claimed to have just been beaten by six people. Mills theorized the defendant walked in the dark through a heavily area between the Clark residence and the store. A resident of a neighborhood nearby reported having encountered a shirtless black man at 4:15 the morning after the shootings.

    Prosecutors are expected to continue presenting witnesses at 8:30 a.m. today.

    http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/05/20/5525818.htm

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    Man sentenced in father and son slayings

    Caleb Carrothers has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for the July 11, 2009, gunshot killings of Frank Clark and his son Taylor in their Oxford-area home.

    A jury returned the decision Friday in Lafayette County Circuit Court.

    Carrothers was convicted Thursday of two counts of capital murder for the Clarks' deaths and one count of aggravated assault in the nonfatal shooting of Tonya Clark, Frank's wife and Taylor's mother.

    Death penalty cases are automatically appealed to the Mississippi Supreme Court.

    http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/defa...#ixzz1N0McqNaQ

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    Appeal planned in Lafayette County death sentence

    Attorneys say they will appeal a death sentence that a jury handed down this past week for Caleb Corrothers for the July 2009 shooting deaths of a Lafayette County father and son.

    Corrothers, 29, was sentenced to death Friday, a day after being convicted on two counts of capital murder for slayings of Frank Clark, and his son, Taylor.

    Corrothers also was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for wounding Tonya Clark, the wife and mother of the other victims.

    The Oxford Eagle reports Corrothers had out on parole six weeks when he killed the Frank and Taylor Clark, apparently over drugs and money. He had served 10 years in prison on four counts of armed robbery.

    The Clarks' older son, Josh was home and witnessed the killings, but was not injured.

    Jurors were chosen from Lee County, and the trial was held in Lafayette County, where the crimes occurred.

    The jury had the choice of sentencing Corrothers to the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

    Since he was sentenced to death, Corrothers is automatically granted an appeal. His attorney, Kelsey Rushing of the Mississippi Office of the Capital Defense Counsel, said one possible issue to appeal is Circuit Court Judge Andrew Howorth's denying an expert witness in the field of witness identification to testify during the trial.

    "We had an expert here that I think was certainly qualified, but the judge didn't allow it," Rushing said.

    During the sentencing hearing, Tonya Clark told jurors how empty her life has been since losing her husband and son.

    "No words can describe what it is like to lose half of your family in just seconds," she said. "I love my family, and I am thankful Josh is around, along with my parents. But my life is forever changed, and that hurts more than I can describe."

    Defense attorneys tried to convince the jury that Corrothers' bad childhood, living in poverty and without a father figure, set him on a path that led him to the courtroom facing the death penalty.

    Vonda Corrothers-Agulanna asked the jury to spare her son's life. After her own mother died and her husband walked out on her, she said she went into a deep depression when Corrothers was a small child. He is one of three boys.

    "During that time of my life, I wasn't really able to take care of the kids the way they should have been," Corrothers-Agulanna said through tears.

    Corrothers-Agulanna spoke to Tonya Clark and the other members of the Clark family sitting in the courtroom. Sobbing, she said, she was very sorry for what happened to them and empathized with Tonya over losing a son.

    Prosecutors told the jury those were just excuses and that Corrothers should be held responsible for the choices he made.

    Caleb's brother, Marcus Corrothers, also spoke at the hearing. Marcus is serving a 20-year-sentence for armed robbery. He made no pleas for his brother's life. He said he felt Caleb followed in his footsteps and looked up to him since he was six years older than Caleb.

    Corrothers' former middle school teacher, Arleen Dowd, described a younger Corrothers as a "passionate" child, who had trouble sitting still and who loved to draw. He was picked by Dowd to be a part of her Fulbright program that was aimed at helping children with academic and behavior problems.

    Dowd said she had spoken with Corrothers' mother several times about getting him additional help.

    "She said she was leaving it up to Jesus," Dowd said. "She was leaving it up to God."

    Dowd asked the jury to spare Corrothers' life.

    "This young man should not be with us here today," she said. "He should be a street artist in New Orleans or having a gallery show in New York. We're here because something wasn't right. I've carried Caleb with me for a long time. I would feel a great loss ... I think you can give him the chance he needs to be productive, to do something good with his mind or hands, even under these circumstances."

    Howorth set the execution by lethal injection for 6 p.m. Nov. 15. However, that date is expected to change several times. Inmates are typically on death row in Mississippi for more than a decade.

    "May God have mercy on your soul," Howorth said before Corrothers was taken out of the courtroom by armed officers.

    http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/art...#ixzz1NHoOiip7

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    Miss. death row inmate seeking new trial

    Mississippi death row inmate Caleb Corrothers wants a new trial on grounds he was didn't get to challenge eyewitness identification.

    Corrothers was convicted in 2011 of two counts of capital murder. The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case Tuesday.

    Prosecutors said Taylor Clark and his father, Frank Clark, were killed over drugs and money. Tonya Clark, Taylor's mother and Frank's wife, was wounded. Another son, Josh Clark, was not injured.

    Corrothers argues his expert would have testified that eyewitness identification can be unreliable.

    Court records show Josh Clark picked Corrothers out of a photo lineup. Josh Clark and Tonya Clark identified Corrothers from the stand during trial, but records also show Tonya Clark was unable to pick Corrothers out of a pre-trial photo lineup.

    http://www.whlt.com/story/24430618/m...king-new-trial
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Corrother's petition for certiorari.

    No. 14-8115 *** CAPITAL CASE ***
    Title:
    Caleb Corrothers, aka Caleb Carrothers, aka Calbe Carother aka Caleb L. Carrothers, aka Caleb Corothers aka Calab Carothers, Petitioner
    v.
    Mississippi
    Docketed: January 26, 2015
    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Mississippi
    Case Nos.: (2012-DP000208-SCT)
    Decision Date: June 26, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: October 23, 2014
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    Miss. death-row inmate denied appeal by US high court

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a Mississippi death row inmate's petition for a new trial.

    Caleb Corrothers argues he was the victim of mistaken eyewitness identification. The nation's high court denied Corrothers' petition Monday without comment.

    Corrothers is arguing that a cognitive psychologist would have offered examples of studies which have shown the memory of witnesses who saw something only briefly diminishes dramatically over time.

    Those arguments were rejected last year by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

    Corrothers, now 33, was convicted in 2011 in Lafayette County on two counts of capital murder and sentenced to death.

    Prosecutors say Taylor Clark and his father, Frank Clark, were shot and killed on July 11, 2009, in their Oxford-area home in dispute over drugs and money.

    http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/arti...gh-6327764.php
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    CALEB CORROTHERS v STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

    Court: Mississippi Supreme Court

    Opinion Date: February 2, 2017

    Caleb Corrothers was convicted of two counts of capital murder and one count of aggravated assault. For the two capital-murder convictions, he received the death penalty. Corrothers appealed, and the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and death sentence. He petitioned the Court for permission to proceed in the trial court with a motion for post-conviction relief (PCR), citing ten alleged violations of his constitutional rights. For nine of Corrothers’s ten claims, the Court found Corrothers failed to present claims that were both procedurally alive and substantially showed the denial of a state or federal right. But for Corrothers’s claim of juror bias through improper contact, the Court found further proceedings in the trial court were necessary. Thus, the Court granted him leave to proceed in the trial court on this issue only. The rest of the petition was denied.
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