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    Dexter Darnell Johnson - Texas Death Row


    Maria Aparece, 23 and Huy Ngo, 17


    Dexter Darnell Johnson


    Facts of the Crime:

    Dexter Johnson was an 18-year-old ninth-grade dropout when he was arrested for robbing 23-year-old Maria Aparece and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Huy Ngo. The woman was raped and both were shot to death in the June 2006 attack. Their bodies were found in northeast Houston.

    Johnson was sentenced to death in Harris County on July 2, 2007.

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    January 27, 2010

    2 Texas death row inmates lose appeals

    HOUSTON — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Houston man condemned for fatally shooting a young couple during a carjacking.

    Dexter Johnson was an 18-year-old ninth-grade dropout when he was arrested for robbing 23-year-old Maria Aparece and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Huy Ngo. The woman was raped and both were shot to death in the June 2006 attack. Their bodies were found in northeast Houston.

    In a second case Wednesday, the state's highest criminal court upheld the death sentence of Darnell Armstrong for the April 2006 robbery of Rafael Castelon outside a bar in Donna in Hidalgo County in south Texas. Evidence showed Castelon's neck was slashed with a box cutter.

    Johnson and Armstrong do not have execution dates and still may pursue federal appeals.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...=AP-75,749.PDF

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    June 28, 2010

    HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a 22-year-old Houston man described by authorities as leader of a gang responsible for at least four murders and dozens of robberies.

    Dexter Darnell Johnson was convicted of the June 2006 shooting deaths of a young couple during a carjacking.

    Johnson's case is one of three Texas death row cases — all from Houston — acted on by the high court Monday.

    Justices also upheld the conviction of 54-year-old Max Soffar, who was retried in 2006 for a shooting rampage at a bowling alley that killed three in 1980.

    And the court has refused to rehear its rejection of an appeal from Linda Carty, a 51-year-old British grandmother convicted of murdering a 20-year-old woman and kidnapping the victim's newborn son in 2001.

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7084255.html
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    This was the denial of the direct appeal.

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    On June 30, 2010, Johnson was denied a writ of habeas corpus by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...PINIONID=19858

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    On June 28, 2011, Johnson filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/tex...v02466/900515/

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    Below is a clip of Johnson's heated reaction to being sentenced to death back in 2007.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5d_1352794670

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    On June 25, 2014, Johnson's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...2466/900515/31

    On July 18, 2014, Johnson filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca5/14-70024

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    Denial of federal habeas relief affirmed and a COA denied yesterday by the 5th Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...4-70024.0..pdf

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Johnson's certiorari petition.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/c...16zor_p8k0.pdf

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    Houston man convicted in fatal carjacking loses at Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a 27-year-old Houston man on death row for the shooting deaths of a young couple during a carjacking nearly 10 years ago.

    The high court, without comment Monday, rejected the case of Dexter Darnell Johnson.

    A Harris County jury condemned him for the June 2006 slayings of 23-year-old Maria Aparece, of Sugar Land, and her 17-year-old boyfriend Huy Ngo, of Houston. Aparece was from the Philippines and a pre-nursing student. Ngo had moved to Houston with his family from France.

    When his sentence was announced in court, Johnson threw a chair and had to be tackled by sheriff's deputies. Testimony showed he was leader of a gang responsible for several slayings.

    He does not yet have an execution date.

    http://www.khou.com/story/news/local...ourt/79297684/
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