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    Rahmael Sal Holt - Pennsylvania Death Row


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    Death penalty sought in police officer's shooting death

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    NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. – Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Pennsylvania man accused of killing a police officer and then leading law enforcement on a four-day manhunt with the help of his mother.

    The Westmoreland County district attorney's office has filed a notice of intent to seek capital punishment if 29-year-old Rahmael Holt is convicted of first-degree murder.

    Holt is charged with shooting 25-year-old New Kensington officer Brian Shaw as the officer chased him on foot after an attempted traffic stop Nov. 17.

    Holt was arrested four days later in Pittsburgh. Defense attorney Justin Ketchel has called the evidence against his client "scant."

    Prosecutors say the manhunt was prolonged by conflicting narratives told by the suspect's mother about when she had last seen her son. She has been charged with hindering apprehension.

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    Accused New Ken cop killer wants lawyer who helped Ray Shetler Jr. beat murder charge

    By Rich Cholodofsky
    The Tribune-Review

    The man accused of fatally shooting New Kensington police officer Brian Shaw wants a new lawyer.

    Rahmael Sol Holt, 29, of Natrona, told Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rita Hathaway on Tuesday he planned to hire another defense attorney. Holt is accused of shooting Shaw following a traffic stop on Leishman Avenue on Nov. 17.

    “I will hire private counsel,” Holt said, noting that he contacted defense attorney Marc Daffner of Pittsburgh two weeks ago to ask about his representation.

    Daffner spent the last two weeks in a Westmoreland County courtroom representing a New Florence man whom jurors last week found not guilty in the shooting death of St. Clair police officer Lloyd Reed.

    Ray A. Shetler Jr. claimed he acted in self-defense in Reed's shooting. The prosecution planned to seek the death penalty against Shetler, if he was found guilty.

    District Attorney John Peck has said he will seek the death penalty against Holt.

    Daffner has not yet filed court documents saying he will represent Holt.

    Reached after the hearing, Daffner said he represented Holt about 10 years ago on a probation violation in Allegheny County.

    “His girlfriend called twice. I have not been hired, and I haven't talked to him,” Daffner said.

    At his preliminary hearing in December, Holt was represented by Justin John-Earl Ketchel of Pittsburgh. That attorney never formally entered his appearance to defend Holt, who appeared in court Tuesday without a lawyer.

    Holt was given information about the charges filed against him and signed an arraignment form on which he said he would plead not guilty to the allegations that he killed Shaw.

    “You need to get representation. We're not going to let this drag on,” the judge said.

    Holt is being held in jail without bond as he awaits trial.

    The judge told him to apply for a public defender while he also works to hire a private lawyer.

    Holt is next scheduled to appear in court on March 21 for a status conference.

    http://triblive.com/local/westmorela...y-who-defended
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    Rahmael Holt gets court-appointed attorneys to defend him in New Kensington cop shooting

    BY RICH CHOLODOFSKY
    The Tribune-Review

    Two private lawyers were appointed Wednesday to represent the Allegheny County man awaiting trial for the murder of New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw.

    Rahmael Sol Holt, 29, of Natrona, appeared in court for a hearing to update the status of his case.

    When Holt appeared without a lawyer, attorneys Tim Dawson and James Robinson were appointed by Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rita Hathaway to represent him.

    District Attorney John Peck has said he will seek the death penalty against Holt if he is convicted of first-degree murder for shooting Shaw on Leishman Avenue in New Kensington on Nov. 17.

    The prosecution contends Holt killed Shaw following a traffic stop. Holt was arrested in Pittsburgh after a manhunt that lasted several days.

    Following the brief court hearing Wednesday, Dawson and Robinson met with Holt for the first time in a courthouse holding cell.

    Both are private attorneys; the county will pay them $60 an hour for work on Holt's case.

    Holt told Hathaway he hasn't been able to hire an attorney and that he submitted an application to be represented by the county's public defender's office.

    “Public Defender Wayne McGrew said the public defender's office can't represent you due to a conflict of interest,” Hathaway said.

    According to court records, the public defender's office already represents one of the people charged with helping Holt elude police during the manhunt.

    Holt had John-Earl Ketchel, a private attorney based in Pittsburgh, represent him during a preliminary hearing in December.

    When Holt appeared before Hathaway last month, he told the judge he intended to hire another private lawyer, Marc Daffner of Pittsburgh.

    The judge said both Dawson and Robinson are qualified to represent defendants in death penalty cases.

    The two attorneys currently are defending Melvin Knight, of Swissvale, who is facing a potential death sentence for the 2010 torture slaying of Jennifer Daugherty, a mentally challenged Mt. Pleasant woman, in Greensburg. Knight's sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin in July.

    Holt's trial has not been scheduled. He will appear again in court with his new lawyers in May.

    http://triblive.com/local/westmorela...kensington-cop
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    Officer Brian Shaw's alleged killer to get private investigator, psychologist

    By Rich Cholodofsky
    The Tribune-Review

    Westmoreland County taxpayers will pay for a private investigator to help the defense of the man accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw.

    On Monday, Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Rita Hathaway approved the request from the lawyers for Rahmael Sol Holt to hire the investigator as well as a psychologist to prepare arguments as to why a jury should not sentence him to death.

    Holt, 29, of Harrison, Allegheny County, was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Shaw's shooting after a traffic stop Nov. 17 on Leishman Avenue.

    Police said Holt was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over in a traffic stop and fired the fatal shots during a chase as he tried to flee.

    Holt was arrested days later in Pittsburgh after an intensive manhunt.

    The prosecution said it will seek the death penalty against Holt.

    Taxpayers already are paying the bills for Holt's lawyers, appointed last month by Hathaway. Defense lawyers Tim Dawson and Jim Robinson are being paid $60 an hour for their work on the case.

    Hathaway authorized the lawyers to spend up to $500 for a private investigator to interview potential witnesses. The judge also approved hiring a mitigation expert to review Holt's background.

    That expert's pay will be capped at $10,000, the judge ruled.

    The defense also asked that prosecutors turn over any video evidence collected in the case. That could include police car dash-cam videos, surveillance footage from the scene or videos of any vehicular stops about the time of the shooting.

    The judge ordered that a hearing be scheduled to consider that request.

    http://triblive.com/local/westmorela...r-psychologist
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    Accused Cop-Killer Appears In Court, Attorneys Claim There Was 3rd Person In Vehicle

    By Meghan Schiller
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    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The man accused of killing a New Kensington police officer was in court Monday morning for a pre-trial hearing.

    Today, officials revealed some new details about who else may have been in the car the night of the shooting.

    Rahmael Holt is accused of shooting and killing Officer Brian Shaw following a traffic stop in November.

    Holt was arrested after a manhunt that lasted for several days.

    As Holt entered courthouse on Monday KDKA-TV’s Meghan Schiller asked, “Are you guilty or innocent?”

    Holt ignored the question and kept his head down.

    Now, officials are looking into the possibility that a third person was in the car that night.

    “We asked for body cam video, we think there is body cam video. We think there’s surveillance video. They have some kind of tape and we have nothing so far,” attorney Tim Dawson

    Defense attorneys Dawson and James Robinson say they have yet to see the state’s evidence in the case against Holt.

    “Our client claims not to be the shooter so if you have evidence, that obviously affects the direction we go on the case,” Dawson said.

    The attorneys released new information Monday afternoon about a possible third person of interest in the case.

    “There was another person in the car, he was not driving. There’s a third person we have learned I think from McKeesport. We need to discover that, too. So, there were three different people,” Dawson said.

    Holt says he didn’t shoot Officer Shaw. So, who did? The attorneys don’t know.

    Holt’s attorneys say Tavon Harper failed to pull over when Officer Shaw attempted a traffic stop. Police later arrested Harper.

    Holt was also in the vehicle and was arrested after lengthy manhunt.

    Now attorneys say a third black male currently not facing charges may have been involved.

    That’s why attorneys say they need video to hopefully show who pulled or didn’t pull the trigger.

    “The shooting took place on a public street. There’s businesses, there’s residences and we have nothing at this point. We don’t have police reports, we don’t have an autopsy report,” Dawson said.

    The state will now work to gather all the evidence in this case and the attorneys will meet again before the judge in August.

    http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/...trial-hearing/

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    Woman details alleged confession in officer Brian Shaw's death, claims suspect's father assaulted her

    By Rich Cholodofsky
    The Tarentum Valley News-Dispatch

    The man accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw last November confessed to the shooting in a conversation with his mother while on the run, a woman testified Thursday.

    Hours after Shaw was gunned down on a New Kensington street, the man suspected of pulling the trigger met with his mother and other relatives in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and admitted to his involvement in the murder before he was told to leave, according to evidence presented during the assault and witness retaliation trial of Gregory Baucum.

    Baucum, 47, formerly of Arnold, is the father of Rahmael Sol Holt, who is awaiting trial for first-degree murder in connection with Shaw's death. Holt, 30, of Harrison, Allegheny County, could face the death penalty if convicted.

    During the four-day manhunt for Holt after the shooting, police questioned Baucum's girlfriend who testified she told investigators about the meeting between Holt and his mother. It was information she learned from Baucum, she told jurors.

    “I didn't want him to know I gave them that information,” Stacy Myers testified during the first day of Baucum's trial.

    Pennsylvania state police Trooper Todd Adamski said he questioned Myers in her kitchen while Baucum was interviewed separately by U.S. marshals a day after the shooting.

    Myers spoke quietly, almost at a whisper, to keep Baucum from hearing what she told police, Adamski testified.

    Police contend Baucum was later confronted by police with Myers' statement after he initially denied any knowledge of his estranged son's whereabouts after the shooting.

    Myers told jurors she and Baucum fought after he learned about her cooperation even after she denied that she helped police by telling them about Holt's meeting with his mother.

    She testified that the morning after their first fight, she awoke with Baucum's hands around her neck. The following morning, after they had sex, she said she woke when Baucum covered her mouth and pinched her nose closed.

    “I thought then, maybe he really was trying to kill me,” Myers testified.

    Baucum was originally charged with strangulation, two counts of witness intimidation, one charge of retaliation against a witness and simple assault. Prosecutors, before testimony in the trial started Thursday, dismissed charges of aggravated assault and harassment.

    Defense attorney Jim Fox told jurors in his opening statement that there was no evidence of any bruises or other injuries to support Myers' accusations.

    Four police officers and Myers testified for the prosecution on Thursday.

    Westmoreland County Det. Ray Dupilka told jurors about the investigation to identify Holt as Shaw's shooter and the manhunt that followed, resulting in his arrest four days later in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh.

    Dupilka said police found video from a home security camera that appears to show Shaw being shot. That video was not introduced as evidence in Baucum's trial.

    Fox said Thursday no decision has been made as to whether Baucum will testify when his trial resumes Friday before Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rita Hathaway.

    http://triblive.com/local/valleynews...uspects-father
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    Father of man accused of killing officer acquitted

    GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The father of a man accused of having killed a western Pennsylvania police officer has been acquitted of witness intimidation and other charges.

    A Westmoreland County jury deliberated for a little over an hour Friday before acquitting 47-year-old Gregory Baucum of all charges — strangulation, simple assault, two counts of retaliation against a witness and witness intimidation.

    Prosecutors contended that Baucum attacked his girlfriend after learning that she had cooperated with police during the manhunt for 25-year-old Rahmael Sol Holt.

    Baucum testified that he felt betrayed after learning that his girlfriend had cooperated with police but “let it go after that.”

    Holt is charged in the November death of 25-year-old New Kensington officer Brian Shaw. Prosecutors say they plan to seek capital punishment if he is convicted of first-degree murder.

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    Man accused of killing New Kensington officer Brian Shaw wants to marry witness, prosecutors say

    By Rich Cholodofsky
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    The man accused of killing New Kensington police officer Brian Shaw wants to marry a key witness against him, according to prosecutors.

    Westmoreland County prosecutors on Wednesday filed court documents seeking to halt wedding nuptials for Rahmael Sol Holt.

    Prosecutors claim they’ve been told Holt intends to marry girlfriend Vanessa Portis. Portis was a key witness against Holt and testified in a previous court hearing that she drove him to different locations after the shooting. Police arrested Holt in Pittsburgh after a four-day manhunt. Portis, according to the prosecution, was also identified as the owner of a mobile phone Holt dropped as he fled Shaw’s murder scene.

    Holt, 30, of Harrison is being held without bond in Westmoreland County Prison while awaiting trial for first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the Nov. 17 shooting death of Shaw.

    A marriage may be an effort to keep Portis from testifying against Holt at trial, according to a court filing from District Attorney John Peck and Assistant District Attorney Jim Lazar.

    They argued that federal and state courts have differed on how to treat a spouse’s testimony. Still, the prosecution contends a marriage should not prevent Portis from testifying about events before they were wed. Communication between the two after marriage could be barred from evidence, Peck and Lazar argued.

    As a result, the prosecution said the potential marriage should be shelved until after Holt’s trial.

    “Because the act of marrying will foreclose consideration of whether the defendant is entitled to the marital privileges in Pennsylvania, the only avenue the commonwealth has to pursue the protection of the truth and the availability of this witness is to seek a bar to the marriage itself. The commonwealth speaks now lest we be compelled to forever hold our peace,” Peck and Lazar argued.

    Peck has said he will seek the death penalty against Holt if he is convicted.

    No date for the trial has been set.

    Defense attorney Tim Dawson said Holt’s marriage plan is not an effort to disrupt the prosecution’s case or to suppress evidence.

    “Love is a many splendored thing. Who is the district attorney to step in and why are they trying to stop this,” Dawson asked. “I believe this is true love.”

    Holt has not obtained a marriage license in Westmoreland County, according to staff in the Register of Wills Office.

    John Walton, warden at Westmoreland County Prison, said that because Holt is an inmate he would need permission from a judge to be furloughed for a wedding ceremony out of the facility. A wedding cannot be conducted in the jail, he said.

    Holt is permitted one in-person visit each week at the jail, but a wedding could not occur during those sessions, Walton said. Inmates are allowed an unlimited number of visits via video conferencing.

    Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rita Hathaway said she will conduct a hearing on the issue later this year. Until then, the judge ordered jail officials to prevent Holt from marrying by limiting or monitoring his video conferencing visits and be sure that no weddings are conducted at any time he is taken from the lockup.

    Dawson suggested the judge at a hearing consider more than just allowing Holt to marry.

    “Perhaps at that time she can conduct the (wedding) service, too, for judicial economy,” Dawson said.

    https://triblive.com/local/valleynew...wants-to-marry
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    Experts: Attempt by accused New Kensington cop killer to marry may be futile

    BY TOM DAVIDSON
    The Tribune-Review

    It might be a long, if not futile, engagement for Rahmael Sol Holt and Vanessa Portis.

    Holt, who is accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw and is in jail awaiting trial, wants to marry Portis.

    But in addition to being his fiancee of the past year, Portis is a key witness in the case against him.

    “You’re creating an obvious conflict of interest,” longtime Beaver County lawyer Bernard Rabik said. “I would object to it.”

    Indeed, the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office made objections in court filings seeking to quash any wedding plans before Holt’s trial, and prison officials have stopped Holt’s access to video visitation to stop the pair from attempting a video elopement — which, itself, wouldn’t be a valid marriage because state law doesn’t allow for proxy weddings.

    A hearing on whether the prospective nuptials can proceed is scheduled for Aug. 16 before Westmoreland County Judge Rita Hathaway, who also is presiding in the criminal case.

    Portis, who was 27 in December, lives in Harrison. She is one of the witnesses who is expected to testify against her prospective groom. Holt, 30, also of Harrison, is being held without bond in Westmoreland County Prison. He has been charged with first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with Shaw’s shooting death last Nov. 17.

    Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty against Holt.

    Groundless concerns?

    The fears the prosecutors have about the wedding may be groundless, according to Bruce Antkowiak, chairman of the criminology department at Saint Vincent College.

    Laws that govern testifying for or against a spouse wouldn’t apply to incidents that happened before a marriage, Antkowiak said.

    There are also a number of exceptions in the law — including if a crime is a capital offense — that rule out using marriage as a defense gambit in this case, he said.

    “I believe this is true love,” Holt’s defense attorney, Tim Dawson, told The Tribune-Review on Wednesday.

    After the story appeared about the wedding plans, the bride-to-be isn’t happy about the publicity, Dawson said.

    “Vanessa, she’s very upset about the whole thing,” Dawson said Friday. “She was upset by the fanfare about the wedding.”

    Portis couldn’t be reached for comment for this story.

    Despite being an expected witness during Holt’s trial, her testimony isn’t as crucial to the case as prosecutors have indicated, Dawson said.

    “The bottom line is this: Vanessa Portis is not a critical witness in this case from the point of view of the defense,” he said.

    There are no known eyewitnesses and Dawson doesn’t dispute that Holt called Portis on Nov. 17, she picked him up in New Kensington and took him to Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, the lawyer said.

    “He did not confess to her or to anyone,” Dawson said.

    There’s nothing “sinister or devious” in the couple pursuing a marriage — they were engaged before Holt was charged with the crime, Dawson said.

    “As far as I know, they had a yearlong relationship prior to the incident,” he said.

    Prisoner marriages do occur

    While unusual, people who are incarcerated, be it at the county or state level, can and do marry while they’re behind bars.

    “I’ve just done a couple,” said Dawson, who has practiced law for three decades. “I’ve read of more. My experience is you have to secure a judge who will approve it. Were this not a capital murder case, you would not have this controversy.”

    In Westmoreland County, “maybe we’ve had five” weddings since 2003, Westmoreland County Prison Warden John Walton said.

    “We don’t really get involved if an inmate wants to get married,” Walton said.

    The inmate has to arrange for the marriage license, court approval and pay for the cost of transportation to the ceremony, Walton said.

    “Nothing at all takes place at the jail,” he said.

    There’s a similar procedure in Allegheny County, according to Amie Downs, the county’s spokeswoman.

    Neither county could provide exact numbers about how many inmates marry each year.

    The state prisons policy

    The state Department of Corrections also doesn’t actively keep track of weddings, but they do have a policy governing them.

    According to those guidelines, the Portis-Holt wedding wouldn’t likely be approved.

    One of the grounds for denial is if “the fiance is expected to testify for/against the inmate.”

    But weddings can and do take place at state prisons.

    Before being married while incarcerated in the state system, an inmate and the person they want to marry must be interviewed by a counselor “so that both parties fully understand the inmate’s present custody status.

    “If parole appears likely within the next 12 months, the inmate will be counseled as to the advisability of deferring the marriage until paroled,” the policy says.

    The bride is allowed a “simple two flower array” during the ceremony, which can be attended by four visitors who must be approved by the prison.

    The newlyweds are not allowed to consummate their relationship, however, as Pennsylvania does not allow conjugal visits.

    “Upon completion of the marriage ceremony, the couple shall be allowed a brief kiss,” the state policy governing weddings specifies.

    Although the state doesn’t track inmate weddings, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Amy Worden said the facility at Fayette County averages between 10 and 15 weddings each year and the Greene County facility has had about six weddings in the last three years.

    Prison wedding minister

    The Rev. Deborah Kalinowski, 64, of Collingwood, N.J., near Philadelphia, owns Weddings on Wheels, a business that performs prison weddings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

    “They’re, like, 90 percent of my business, so I’d say they’re pretty common,” Kalinowski said.

    She’s performed one wedding at a county jail in Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, and has officiated at several hundred Pennsylvania inmate weddings in the last decade in the state prison system, she said.

    She started the business after she spotted a need for it, she said, and she’s performed several weddings at the prison in Fayette County.

    “Weddings on Wheels is a business. I’m not a church,” she said. “I just perform the service and sign the marriage license.”

    She doesn’t even ask why the groom — all of the marriages have involved incarcerated men thus far — is in prison.

    “I don’t judge people,” Kalinowski said. “I’m not there to ask what they’re in for. I’m there to provide a service.”

    https://triblive.com/local/valleynew...o-marry-may-be
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    Appeal denied for woman who lied to police about contact with Rahmael Holt, alleged New Kensington cop killer

    A Westmoreland County judge on Monday rejected an appeal from a New Kensington woman who wanted her 23-month jail sentence reduced for hindering police in arresting the man charged with killing police officer Brian Shaw.

    Taylor Mitchell, 19, contended the sentence imposed in June by Common Pleas Court Judge Rita Hathaway was too long.

    “Although defendant is not responsible for the devastating course of events that led to the death of officer Shaw, she is directly responsible for creating more havoc and turmoil as officers attempted to make an arrest, and more heartbreak for officer Shaw’s family as they grappled with the fact that his suspected killer was still at large,” Hathaway wrote.

    Police said Shaw was shot and killed Nov. 17 following a traffic stop in New Kensington. Authorities identified Rahmael Sol Holt as the suspected shooter and spent four days searching before capturing himin Pittsburgh.

    Investigators contended that while searching for Holt they spoke with Mitchell and her mother, Lakita Caine, who initially claimed they had no contact with the alleged shooter. According to court records, police confirmed Holt and Mitchell had communicated through text messages and Caine eventually told investigators that Holt came to their home a day after the shooting.

    Mitchell pleaded guilty in March to two felony counts of hindering the apprehension of a suspect and was sentenced in June to serve 11 1/2 to 23 months in jail and two years on probation. She could be paroled from jail as early as Sept. 11, according to court records.

    Mitchell had no prior criminal record and contends the judge abused her discretion in imposing a sentence that was above state guidelines. Those guidelines called for her to receive a jail term of three months, according to the defense.

    Hathaway, during the sentencing hearing, defended the sentence saying it was justified due to the seriousness of the incident and the “turmoil that everyone was in at the time, ma’am, in trying to apprehend Mr. Holt. … You not telling the truth played a great part in that.”

    Caine, 40, of New Kensington, pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of hindering apprehension of a suspect. She is scheduled to be sentenced by Hathaway on Aug. 17.

    Holt, 30, of Harrison, Allegheny County, is awaiting trial for first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with Shaw’s killing. The prosecution has said it will seek the death penalty if Holt is convicted.

    https://triblive.com/local/westmorel...t-with-rahmael
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