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    Robert James Campbell - Texas


    Alexandra Rendon






    Facts of the Crime:

    Campbell was convicted of the January 1991 abduction and murder of Alexandra Rendon in Houston. Rendon, a Bank One employee, was kidnapped from a Chevron station and driven to a desolate area. Campbell and codefendant Leroy Lewis robbed her of her money and jewelry and then raped her. Random was marched at gunpoint to a field and then told by Campbell to run. Campbell shot once at Rendon's head but missed. He then shot her in the back and left her to die.

    Lewis later gave police a taped confession. Rendon's body was found 12 days after the murder.

    Campbell was sentenced to death in Harris County in July 1992.

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    EX PARTE ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL

    In today's TCCA orders, Campbell's subsequent application for a writ of habeas corpus was DENIED.
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Campbell's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
    Case Nos.: (AP-76,907)
    Decision Date: November 7, 2012
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    The TDCJ updated their scheduled execution list, and Robert James Campbell has been assigned an execution date - 5/13/2014

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    Has he been to federal court yet? If so can anyone post the dates of each?

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    This date might be tentative but it's official on the TDCJ site. The last tentative date in Texas was for Randall Mays back in 2011.

    5th circuit denial: ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL v. DOUGLAS DRETKE

    SCOTUS denied Campbell back in 2005: http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/04-9814.htm

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    I surmise that this is the last execution scheduled in Texas. I wonder if they have a drug supply problem along with Florida. Governor Scott has not signed any death warrants in quite awhile.

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    Media Advisory: Robert James Campbell scheduled for execution

    AUSTIN – Pursuant to an order entered by the 232nd District Court of Harris County, Robert James Campbell is scheduled for execution after 6 p.m. (Central time) May 13, 2014.

    On May 21, 1992, Campbell was sentenced to die for the Jan. 3, 1991 rape- and kidnapping-related capital murder of Alexandra Rendon.

    FACTS OF THE CRIME

    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit described the facts surrounding the murder of Alexandra Rendon as follows:

    On January 3, 1991, Alexandra Rendon left her job at Bank One between 10:00 and 10:30 p.m. She was wearing a white leather skirt, a cream-colored dress coat with snake skin patches on the shoulders, a high school graduation ring, an engagement ring, and a watch. At 10:53 p.m. Ms. Rendon purchased gasoline at a Chevron station located near her place of employment. The next day, Ms. Rendon’s mother realized that her daughter was missing, and on January 5, she contacted the police about her daughter’s disappearance.

    On January 14, 1991, the police picked up Lawrence Thomas, Campbell’s friend of three years, for questioning. Thomas told the police that Campbell had told him that he and his friend Lewis had gotten a car from a lady at a gas station, driven her to a field, and shot and killed her. On January 15, Thomas led the police to the field where Campbell had told him that Ms. Rendon’s body was located. On January 16, the police arrested Campbell for Ms. Rendon’s murder.

    At trial, the State presented several witnesses whose testimony tied Campbell to the commission of Ms. Rendon’s murder. Campbell’s friends Thomas, Carey Pennamon, and Jesse Criff all testified that Campbell told them that he had shot and killed a woman whose car he’d taken at a gas station. Campbell also mentioned to two friends watching a news story about Ms. Rendon’s murder, Otha Norton and Sheila Robeson, that Ms. Rendon looked like the woman he’d shot and killed.

    Additionally, Campbell told Thomas, Criff, and Pennamon that he’d shot at Ms. Rendon twice, hitting her the second time. He told Pennamon that he told her to “run […]” before shooting at her and told Thomas that he’d told her to walk away from the car before shooting at her. He showed Thomas the field where he’d left Ms. Rendon’s body, and described the location to Criff. That field was where the police later recovered Ms. Rendon’s body.

    The police also recovered many of Ms. Rendon’s belongings from Campbell’s friends and family. They recovered the coat Ms. Rendon had been wearing from Campbell’s mother Wilda, the class ring and watch she had been wearing from Campbell’s girlfriend Demetrius Brown, and the gun used to kill Ms. Rendon from Campbell’s friend Pennamon. (Pennamon had also seen Campbell wearing Rendon’s class ring a day or so after Ms. Rendon’s disappearance.) Pennamon testified that Campbell had asked him to hold onto the gun. Campbell offered Ms. Rendon’s white leather skirt, which Thomas had seen earlier in the car Campbell was driving, to his friends Robeson and Norton. Robeson declined the skirt because it was dirty and Norton later threw it away. Campbell told Pennamon that he had taken the personal belongings of the woman he had killed. Campbell also drove numerous friends, including Thomas, Norton, and Robeson around in a car identical to Ms. Rendon’s.

    The police recovered semen of two men from Ms. Rendon’s body. Campbell told Criff that he had sex with his victim and told Thomas that Leroy Lewis, who was with Campbell that night, had also had sex with her. DNA testing further determined that 85.3% of African-American males could be excluded from contributing the semen attributed to Campbell, and only four percent of African-American males could have contributed the semen attributed to Lewis. (The degraded nature of the DNA prevented more accurate results.)

    PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY

    Under Texas law, the rules of evidence prevent certain prior criminal acts from being presented to a jury during the guilt-innocence phase of the trial. However, once a defendant is found guilty, jurors are presented information about the defendant’s prior criminal conduct during the second phase of the trial – which is when they determine the defendant’s punishment.

    During the punishment phase of trial, the State offered evidence of other crimes Campbell had committed. Aside from judgments of conviction against Campbell for two robberies, the State presented evidence of two other carjacking crimes he committed about the time of Ms. Rendon’s disappearance. In both instances Campbell confronted persons getting into their cars, abducted them, took them to a remote location, and stole their personal possessions. In one instance, Campbell ordered the victim to walk away from the vehicle and shot at him twice, missing both times. In the other, Campbell’s accomplice talked him out of his plan to shoot the female victim and drown her son in a nearby lake.

    The defense called three family members and a friend to testify on Campbell’s behalf. They testified that Campbell was remorseful, needed rehabilitation, was loved by his family, and would not be a future danger to society.

    PROCEDURAL HISTORY

    On April 2, 1991, a Harris County grand jury indicted Campbell for rape- and kidnaping-related capital murder.

    On May 14, 1992, after a trial in the 232nd District Court of Harris County, jurors found Campbell guilty of capital murder.

    On May 21, 1992, after a punishment hearing, the judge entered an order sentencing Campbell to death.

    On June 14, 1995, on direct review, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Campbell’s conviction and sentence.

    On April 15, 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of the Court of Criminal Appeals decision.

    On April 23, 1997, Campbell filed his first application for state habeas corpus relief. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Campbell’s petition on March 8, 2000.

    On Nov. 2, 2000, Campbell filed his federal petition for habeas corpus relief in the Southern District of Texas. The federal district court denied the petition on March 19, 2003.

    Campbell filed his second application for state habeas corpus relief on June 2, 2003. The Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed Campbell’s second application for habeas corpus relief on July 2, 2003.

    On July 22, 2003, Campbell moved in the Fifth Circuit for permission to file a successive federal habeas corpus petition. The Fifth Circuit denied Campbell permission on Nov. 13, 2003.

    On Dec. 9, 2004 - in connection with Campbell’s initial federal petition for habeas corpus relief – the Fifth Circuit denied Campbell a certificate of appealability, thus denying permission to appeal.

    On Nov. 14, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of the Fifth Circuit Court’s decision denying Campbell a certificate of appealability.

    On Aug. 14, 2006, Campbell filed his third application for state habeas corpus relief. The Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed Campbell’s third application for habeas corpus relief on April 25, 2007.

    On Nov. 26, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of the Court of Criminal Appeals decision regarding Campbell’s third application for state habeas corpus relief.

    Campbell filed his fourth application for state habeas corpus relief on Sept. 5, 2012.

    On Nov. 7, 2012, the Court of Criminal Appeals denied relief on Campbell’s fourth application for habeas corpus relief.

    On Oct. 7, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of Campbell’s fourth application for state habeas corpus relief.

    On Nov. 18, 2013, the 232nd District Court of Harris County scheduled Campbell’s execution for May 13, 2014.
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    State court narrowly dismisses killer's bid for stay days before execution

    By Allan Turner
    The Houston Chronicle

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a 5-4 vote Thursday rejected an appeal by convicted Houston killer Robert Campbell, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the January 1991 rape-murder of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller.

    Campbell's attorney Robert Owen had raised claims that Campbell, 41, is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution and that his defense had suffered because of inadequate legal representation.

    The state's top criminal appeals court said the allegations did not meet relevant judicial standards for consideration, dismissed the appeal as an abuse of the writ and turned down the request for a stay.

    Judge dissents

    In a dissent, Judge Elsa Alcala argued that recent testing of Campbell showed he had an IQ of 69, indicating that he is intellectually disabled. She also noted that a 2003 appeal based on intellectual disability was rejected by the court because of a reported Texas Department of Criminal Justice intelligence test report showing an IQ of 84, well above the disability threshold.

    But, Alcala noted, Campbell's latest appeal asserted that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not provide results of a second test that indicated disability.

    4 justices favor review

    Furthermore, she said, the new appeal asserted that the Harris County District Attorney's office failed to provide Campbell's lawyers with documents that would have supported his 2003 claim.

    Alcala was joined by justices Tom Price, Cheryl Johnson and Cathy Cochran in favoring a court review of Campbell's claims.

    The five majority justices were Sharon Keller, Lawrence Meyers, Paul Womack, Michael Keasler and Barbara Harvey.

    Campbell was condemned for killing Alexandra Rendon, after abducting her as she fueled her car at a service station not far from her apartment.

    A second appeal for Campbell remains active in a Houston federal court.

    http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...or-5464153.php

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    Lawyers for convicted killer Campbell file appeals days before scheduled execution

    Lawyers for convicted Houston rapist and killer Robert James Campbell this week launched appeals in state and federal courts in a near-last minute bid to save their client from execution on Tuesday.

    Campbell, 41, was condemned for the Jan. 3, 1991 murder of 20-year-old Bank One teller Alexandra Rendon, who was abducted while fueling her car at a service station near her southwest Houston home.

    In a petition filed Monday with Harris County's 232nd state District Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, attorney Robert Owen argued that Campbell has an IQ of 69, and therefore suffers a mental disability and is ineligible for execution. Owen also asserted that Campbell had suffered from inadequate legal representation.

    In an appeal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, attorney Maurie Levin challenged the state's right to execute Campbell without divulging the source of the compounding pharmacy-produced drug used in executions.

    Owen, a law professor at Northwestern University, said in his appeal that testing performed last month indicated Campbell fell below the 70 IQ threshold of normal mental acuity. Owen asked the courts to re-open an earlier appeal, in which Campbell's mental disability claim was dismissed because of insufficient evidence.

    April's testing by psychologist Dr. Leslie Rosenstein marked the first time Campbell's mental ability thoroughly was valuated, he said. Rosenstein characterized the inmate as having "mild mental retardation."

    Owen cited Rosenstein's report in which she noted that tests administered to Campbell in grade school found mental deficiencies and a lack of progress in mastering his lessons.

    Additionally, Owen argued, Campbell suffered deficits in adaptive functioning that could be related to low mental ability. Campbell, he argued, had difficulty reading and with written communication. He had difficulty reading a clock, determining when his car was running out of gasoline and calculating change.

    Owen challenged the results of an intelligence test administered by prison authorities that found Campbell had an IQ of 84, charging that details of how the test was administered and by whom have been lost.

    In her federal appeal, Levin, a University of Texas law professor, challenged the state's right to keep secret who compounded the pentobarbital to be used in the execution. State prison officials turned to lightly regulated compounding pharmacies for the drug after its maker responded to pressure from anti-death penalty groups by halting sales to executioners.

    Levin filed her appeal less than a week after Oklahoma executioners spectacularly botched the execution of Clayton Lockett, a rapist-murderer who ordered an accomplice to bury his 19-year-old victim alive. Lockett groaned and writhed as the attempted execution using midazolom went awry. Lockett died more than 40 minutes later of a heart attack.

    In the Texas case, prosecutors said Campbell's attack on Rendon was part of a string of abductions and robberies. At the time, Campbell, then 18, had been paroled from state prison for four months after serving four months of a five-year sentence for two robberies.

    Days before Rendon's body was found in a muddy field off Knight Road, Campbell and two companions abducted a Houston-area woman and her 8-year-old son from the parking lot of a southwest side toy store. Campbell intended to rob the woman, then fatally shoot her and drown her son.

    His companions successfully pleaded that their lives be spared.

    Campbell's accomplice in the Rendon case, Leroy Lewis, was paroled in May 2012 after serving nine years of a 35-year sentence.

    http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...le-5457987.php
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