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Thread: Shelton Denoria Jones - Texas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moh View Post
    Thanks for pointing that out. Why is he still listed by the Texas DOC as being on death row?
    They stay where they are at until the district attorney figures out what to do with them, and that includes his thread on the TDCJ death row website. If they decide to take Jones to trial again, then he stays at Polunsky or the county jail until the trial is over, depending on the time proximity to the trial. If he is re-sentenced to death, then he is booked out of the county jail after the trial, goes back to Polunsky, and his page on the TDCJ death row website remains. If he is sentenced to life or commuted, then his thread will be taken off the TDCJ death row page and will be posted on the 'no longer on death row' page. As for that dull time from the grant of habeas relief to re-trial, by law he will remain at Polunsky, which also includes his death row thread on the death row website. On a further note, the state is in charge of that website, so they will not update its pages (including the scheduled executions list and offenders executed pages) until they get the correct paperwork and command to do so. It's not like the private sites that are constantly updated, such as this one.

    Jones KNOWS that he will get re-sentenced to death again, so he probably planned that fair-trial appeal to last as long as he could. To further make my point, the former district attorney of Harris County, Mike Anderson, who died a few years ago of cancer, was a strong believer in capital punishment for cop-killers. The succeeding district attorney, Devon Anderson (his wife), is no different, and she is as adamant as he was, if not more, about dishing out the death penalty for cop killers. It goes to show then, how desperate Jones is about this.

    Regardless of the outcome, the district court now once AGAIN has to consider this slop and will then AGAIN get sent back to the 5th Circuit regardless of that result. Until then, a re-trial is quite a ways off.
    Last edited by FFM; 05-20-2015 at 05:31 PM.

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    Thanks very much, FFM, for your great, detailed answer!

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    On October 28, 2015, Jones' first amended habeas petition regarding his fair trial claim was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...1825/674686/71

    On November 27, 2015, Jones filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/15-70040

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    On February 8, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Jones' appeal before the Fifth Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...2/15-70040.htm

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    If I understand this case correctly, the state is planning to resentence him regardless. This appeal only determines if they have to retry him as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cheser View Post
    not playing any race card..just say accused of dosent mean the man is guilty..every one knows how many cases defense has and not time to go through things proberly..done my homework believe me
    No way he's guilty and this is definitely a race card. If they are gonna pin something on someone, chances are it's gonna be black or close to it.
    Police kill their own. Look who was in the car or at the scene first. That's who did it.

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    The 5th Circuit affirmed the district court today.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...?ts=1522193414
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    I'm guessing this applies only to his conviction, since his sentence has been vacated, correct? I guess the question is will Harris County's anti DA again seek a death sentence, or let him have Life with parole, which could result in him being released soon?

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    Please click on the link to the case that Aaron has provided for more information.

    I couldn't have known that from your original statement, but thanks.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Jones' petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Numbers: (15-70040)
    Decision Date: May 15, 2018

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/18-5980.html

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