Facts of the Crime:
Convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 for the 2002 murder of Sherita House, who was pregnant when she was strangled in the Germantown home she shared with Cooper's brother.
Facts of the Crime:
Convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 for the 2002 murder of Sherita House, who was pregnant when she was strangled in the Germantown home she shared with Cooper's brother.
On December 28, 2007, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Cooper's death sentence due to ineffective assistance of counsel.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-suprem...t/1227281.html
As of this writing, he remains imprisoned.
http://inmatelocator.cor.state.pa.us.../criteria.aspx
His lawyer must be insane ...
The story begins with the case of Willie Cooper, whose lawyer argued the Biblical passage about “an eye for an eye” backed the death penalty only for the killing of pregnant women. The lawyer, Norman Scott, had “inexplicably" forgotten that Cooper’s alleged victim was pregnant, the newspaper says. Scott told the Inquirer he routinely makes the argument in death penalty cases and used it in Cooper’s case out of habit.
Cooper’s death sentence was overturned, and a jury resentenced him to life in prison.
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No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.
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