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    WARNING! Graphic photos of Joana Rodriguez in the trunk of the car as she was found....






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    Does she have a lot of appeals still available to her??
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    Carty has exhausted all appeals.
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    Carty's consular issues are inauthentic bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent! Carty is a naturalized American citizen, she took the oath. She's renounced all foriagn allegiances. The British need to pack up the disinformation propaganda campaign.
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    They should execute her pronto and set an example that it doesn't matter if your a foreign national...if you commit murder you are going to face the same punishment as an American citizen.

    Quote Originally Posted by Weidmann1939 View Post
    Carty's consular issues are inauthentic bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent! Carry is a naturalized American citizen, she took the oath. She's renounced all foriagn allegiances. The British need to pack up the disinformation propaganda campaign.
    It's funny you don't see the Canadian government fighting hard to save Ronald Smith in Montana...matter a fact the Supreme court of Canada ruled that the Harper government had to request he not be executed. Up until that ruling the only ones squawking about him facing the DP were his lawyers.

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    Carty has exhausted all appeals.
    Thanks Heidi!!
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Having read a lot on the Carty case, I am one Brit who believes she is exactly where she belongs. She was found guilty of a crime in America, she killed an American and kidnapped another - America therefore has every right to deal with her. It has diddly squit to do with "us" (us as in the UK )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weidmann1939 View Post
    Carty's consular issues are inauthentic bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent! Carry is a naturalized American citizen, she took the oath. She's renounced all foriagn allegiances. The British need to pack up the disinformation propaganda campaign.
    In the most strictly technical sense, you can't renounce British citizenship to US authorities. You have to tell the UKBA that you no longer wish to be a British citizen and pay a £130 fee

    However if she is a naturalised American then the Vienna protocol doesn't apply anyway, so whether she's a British citizen is moot. Plus a British passport warns dual nationals that British authorities cannot protect a person from the authorities of another nationality they hold. So I couldn't demand British consular assistance if I was arrested in Canada because I'm also a Canadian citizen.

    So why on earth are they assisting Carty if she is a naturalised American?!?!?!?! I hope their "assistance" amounts to nothing more than laughing about how implausible her claims are over the tea break while discussion how to make the right noises to the BBC.

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    Huffington Post article

    Explosive Allegations Provide New Hope For British Grandmother On Texas Death Row

    New allegations in a high-profile death penalty case may help Linda Carty, a 56-year-old British grandmother who has been on death row in Texas since 2002, get the appeal she so desperately needs.

    "When you see the consistent pattern [of allegations] we have from every single witness, it just cries out for a hearing," Michael Goldberg, Carty's attorney, told The Huffington Post Friday.

    With signed affidavits as new evidence, Goldberg has requested an evidentiary hearing with the Texas Court Of Criminal Appeals in hopes a favorable ruling paves the way for new trial in appeals court.

    A jury sentenced Carty to death in February 2002 after she was convicted of plotting the murder of a woman and child who lived in her apartment complex. The 4 men convicted of kidnapping the pair testified against Carty, who worked as a Drug Enforcement Agency informant, to avoid the death penalty themselves.

    Last week, the Houston Chronicle published a scathing investigation containing allegations that the prosecuting attorney coached, coerced and otherwise threatened witnesses into giving testimony that suited her case.

    Since the Chronicle's article, Goldberg said, "a lot of people [have] come out of the woodwork" with "things to say" about Assistant Harris County District Attorney Connie Spence.

    The Chronicle's report included the affidavits, which were both signed in 2014 and supplied independent of one another to Carty's defense team. Christopher Robinson,1 of the 4 gunmen who testified against Carty at trial, wrote that Spence both coached and threatened him into giving damning testimony against Carty. Charles Mathis, the former DEA agent who recruited Carty in the '90s as a confidential informant, accused Spence of inventing a false affair between him and Carty to coerce him into testifying for her office.

    According to court records, 4 gunmen burst into the home of Carty's neighbor, Joana Rodriguez, in May 2001. They demanded money and drugs before beating Rodriguez's husband and abducting her and her newborn son, the document notes. She was found dead a day later, tied and suffocated in the trunk of a car. The baby was found alive and reunited with his father.

    Prosecutors alleged that Carty, a mother and a grandmother, was obsessed with having another baby to save her common-law marriage and orchestrated the kidnap and murder plot so she could pass off Rodriguez's newborn as her own. Carty's defense argued she was set up by the kidnappers - all of whom had prior drug or robbery convictions - as retribution for her ongoing work with the DEA.

    In his affidavit, Mathis, who could not be reached for comment, wrote that Spence had "limited my testimony and only wanted me to testify only to a very tight set of facts." He wrote he was unable to speak to Carty's important work with the DEA, or the fact that he found her incapable of committing murder.

    Though no execution date has been set, Carty's case has drawn significant interest and outrage in England and her native Saint Kitts. Her case has been well-covered by British media, and former model and human rights activist Bianca Jagger numbers among her supporters. In 2009, supporters staged a sort of demonstration in London's Trafalger Square to publicize her plea. Carty's case was even the subject of an episode of the Werner Herzog-directed miniseries, "On Death Row."

    Goldberg noted the Harris County District Attorney's Office has not opened an investigation into the allegations against Spence; a Harris County district attorney told the Chronicle the office would wait for a response from the state before opening any kind of investigation into misconduct by the office's attorneys.

    The Harris County District Attorney's office did not return The Huffington Post's calls or emails for comment.

    Carty has lost a total of 3 appeals at the state and federal level, including 1 in which the British government filed an amicus brief as a friend of the court to the U.S. Supreme Court. Goldberg, who has been working pro-bono on Carty's appeals case for almost a decade, said on top of unethical tactics by Spence's office, Carty's court-appointed trial attorney was inept; lawyer Gerald Guerinot even failed to call Mathis to the stand or contact the British Consulate when Carty was arrested. The Houston Chronicle notes Guerinot has had 20 clients condemned to death row.

    Goldberg said Carty is now waiting for the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals to grant an evidentiary hearing based on the new evidence from the affidavits.

    "It is very difficult to maintain your sanity being on death row for a decade," Goldberg said. "Linda has had so many highs and lows through 1st round of appeals and now she is in one of those highs thinking 'we got this!'"

    Goldberg added: "But I'm trying to temper everything, because when you're dealing with the criminal courts, you can never say for certain."

    (Source: The Huffington Post)
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    EX PARTE LINDA CARTY

    In today's TCCA orders, the court REMANDED Carty's subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus to the trial court for further consideration.

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    Another Huffington Post article

    British Woman On Death Row Gets Rare Hearing From Texas' Last Resort Court

    The highest criminal court in Texas has granted a rare hearing to review allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in the high-profile death row case of British national Linda Carty.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' Wednesday decision is potentially a much-sought break for Carty, 56, who is facing the death penalty for a 2002 capital murder conviction. After new evidence is put before the trial court, it will decide if she will finally get an appeal.

    Her three previous attempts at an appeal hearing were unsuccessful.

    "My understanding is that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rarely grants a hearing in such matters," Carty's attorney, Michael Goldberg, told The Huffington Post by phone from Russia. “It’s tremendous. It’s unbelievable.”

    Lynn Hardaway, a Harris County district attorney, agreed: "It does happen, but very infrequently."

    Carty was convicted for the 2001 kidnapping and murder of her neighbor, Joana Rodriguez. Prosecutors claimed Carty was so desperate for a baby to save her common-law marriage that she schemed to steal Rodriguez's newborn son and pass him off as her own. Rodriguez was found dead a day after being abducted; the baby survived the ordeal unharmed.

    Affidavits signed in 2014 by the state's star witness, Christopher Robinson, and a retired DEA agent who recruited Carty as an informant allege that Harris County Assistant District Attorney Connie Spence coached, coerced and otherwise threatened witnesses to seal a conviction, according to the Houston Chronicle. Robinson is among four co-defendants who testified against Carty; in doing so, he secured a life sentence without the death penalty.

    Carty has maintained her innocence from the start, and her plea has attracted considerable attention from British media, celebrities and U.K.-based supporters. Carty, who was born in St. Kitts, then a British territory, emigrated to the United States and holds dual citizenship.

    Assistant District Attorney Roe Wilson, who handles capital appeals for Harris County, previously told the Chronicle the state would launch an investigation if the court agreed Carty's case deserve a closer look.

    Hardaway told HuffPost Wednesday the allegations of misconduct are "claims the office takes very seriously. We have been investigating and we will file a response."

    She also noted that Carty's lawyers had requested the review hearing based additional counts as well -- including Carty's long-standing claim of innocence -- but the court rejected half of them.

    Goldberg said his firm Baker Botts, which has fought pro bono for Carty for nearly ten years, is nonetheless pleased: "The entire Baker Botts team is so happy Linda is finally getting her first real, transparent hearing.”

    A date for the hearing has not yet been set.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6755426.html
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