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    Roger Wayne Murray - Arizona Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    On May 11, 1991, Robert and Roger Murray spent the night in Las Vegas, Nevada, and bought a .12 gauge shotgun. The following day, the Murrays drove to Kingman. During the night of May 14, 1991, they decided to rob someone.

    While driving through Grasshopper Junction, which is 30 miles north of Kingman on the way to Las Vegas, they stopped at the home of Dean Morrison and Jackie Appelhans. The Murrays entered the home while armed, and had the two victims lie down on the floor side-by-side. They shot each of them at least twice with a .38 revolver, and shot Jackie twice more with a .22 rifle. They then shot each of them once in the head with a shotgun. They then ransacked the house and fled.

    Roger Wayne Murray was sentenced to death on October 26, 1992.

    Robert Wayne Murray was also sentenced to death. He died of cancer on June 28, 2014. For more on Robert Wayne Murray, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...zona-Death-Row

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    On July 8, 2008, Roger W. Murray filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over the denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir.../ca9/08-99013/

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    ROGER MURRAY V. DORA SCHRIRO

    In today's opinions the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals DENIED Murray's petition for habeas relief.

    The panel affirmed the denial of a 28 U.S.C. § 2254
    habeas corpus petition challenging a conviction and capital
    sentence for murder.

    The panel affirmed the denial of relief as to petitioner’s
    change of venue motion, including petitioner’s contention
    that there is a heightened obligation to change venue in
    capital cases, because the state court’s decision—that the
    substantial media coverage of this “sensational, small-town
    murder” was not constitutionally prejudicial—was not
    contrary to or an unreasonable application of Supreme Court
    precedent.

    The panel affirmed the denial of relief as to petitioner’s
    claim under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), because
    the state court’s decision that the prosecutor’s race-neutral
    explanations for exercising peremptory challenges against
    two Hispanic potential jurors was not contrary or an
    unreasonable application of Batson.

    The panel also affirmed the denial of relief as to
    petitioner’s claim that he was denied due process based on a
    belated request for access to the sanitized crime scene.

    The panel affirmed the denial of relief as to petitioner’s
    request for jury instructions on voluntary intoxication instruction and second degree murder, for lack of supportingevidence, because the state court’s decision was consistent
    with Supreme Court precedent.

    The panel held that the state court’s rejection of
    petitioner’s claim that the trial court erroneously applied a
    causal nexus test to evidence that petitioner’s dysfunctional
    childhood could not be considered as an independent
    mitigating factor was not contrary to or an unreasonable
    application of Supreme Court precedent. The panel explained
    that the record reflects that the sentencing court
    “meticulously” weighed the mitigating and aggravating
    factors and employed the causal nexus test as a permissible
    means of weighing the entirety of the mitigating evidence
    prior to imposing sentence, and any error did not prejudice
    petitioner.

    Finally, the panel held that the state court’s denial of
    relief on petitioner’s claims of ineffective assistance of
    counsel was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of
    Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and did not
    warrant a remand under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S. Ct. 1309
    (2012). Petitioner claimed that he was denied his right to
    counsel due to an irreconcilable conflict, and that counsel was
    ineffective by sleeping during the trial and by failing to
    interview a critical witness who would have supported the
    defense theory that petitioner happened to be in the area
    where the murders were committed but did not commit them.
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    Court rejects appeals for Ariz. death row inmates

    A federal appeals court has turned down appeals filed on behalf of two brothers on Arizona's death row for a pair of killings in Mohave County.

    The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled against Robert W. Murray and Roger W. Murray.

    Both were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 fatal shootings of 65-year-old Dean Morrison and 60-year-old Jacqueline Appelhans.

    The victims operated a store and restaurant at Grasshopper Junction in a rural area near Kingman.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/art...es-5324992.php
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    That should mean they have less than 18 months to live. File to re-hear en banc at the 9th, denied, then file and denied at SCOTUS, then 60 days for date.

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    Arizona death row inmate dies

    An inmate on Arizona's death row inmate for a pair of killings committed 23 years ago in Mohave County and who reportedly had cancer has died.

    The state Department of Corrections and attorneys for Robert W. Murray say he died June 28, and the attorneys said Murray had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

    Citing privacy of medical records, Corrections spokesman Doug Nick said he could say only that Murray died of natural causes and that he was being treated for a medical condition.

    Nick says the Pinal County medical examiner will determine cause of death.

    Murray and brother Roger W. Murray were convicted in the 1991 killings of a couple who owned a store and restaurant in Grasshopper Junction, a tiny village on U.S. 93 north of Kingman.

    http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-...9625785d8.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by MRBAM View Post
    That should mean they have less than 18 months to live. File to re-hear en banc at the 9th, denied, then file and denied at SCOTUS, then 60 days for date.
    I guess I was right about the "should have less than 18 months to live" part........so be it. I hope the cancer hurt.

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    Lol, the brother, Robert, died. Roger is still alive.

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    Guess I need to pay more attention.
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    In today's opinions, the Ninth Circuit DENIED Murray's petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...4/08-99013.pdf

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