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    Omar Sharif Cash - Pennsylvania Death Row





    Jury returns first-degree murder verdict in 35 minutes


    A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury took all of 35 minutes Thursday before finding Omar Sharif Cash guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 execution-style slaying of a 19-year-old man outside a Frankford car wash.

    The jury of 10 women and two men returned to court at about 2:15 p.m. and, in an silent courtroom, announced the verdict that could result in a death penalty against the 31-year-old Cash.

    Judge Sandy L.V. Byrd dismissed the jury until Tuesday - after Monday's Veterans' Day holiday - when it will begin hearing evidence to decide if Cash should be sentenced to death by lethal injection or life in prison without chance of parole.

    Cash had become almost legendary in law enforcement for escaping conviction. A 2009 Inquirer series detailed how a rape case was dismissed when the victim failed to appear at trial. An attempted-murder case failed when the victim hanged himself. A robbery case sank when the alleged victim, wanted on a drug charge, became a fugitive.

    Defense attorneys Lee Mandell and Earl G. Kauffman said they would not comment on the verdict.

    Cash, who on Wednesday testified in his defense, exhibited no obvious emotion at the verdict. In his testimony, Cash admitted that on April 21, 2008 he shot Muliek Ronald Brown in the back of the head as Brown polished the wheel rims of his Mercury Marquis outside Winning Edge Car Wash on Frankford Avenue.

    Cash maintained he shot Brown because it was a case of "kill or be killed." Cash said Brown and other members of a local gang had shot at and were hunting him.

    "I was trying to avoid getting killed myself, this was how I'm going to protect myself," Cash said, adding, "I didn't want to have to keep ducking and hiding from these people."

    Assistant District Attorneys Carlos Vega and Peter Lim called Cash's version of events a "fabrication" and an excuse to give the jury a reason not to find him guilty of first-degree murder.

    Prosecutors said Brown had no juvenile or adult criminal history, was unarmed, worked full-time and was married and the father of a young son.

    "This was not just a murder, this was an execution," Lim told the jury in his closing argument.

    Lim argued that the fact that Cash sneaked up behind Brown and shot him in the head and then fled to New York City proved he was guilty of a premeditated malicious killing.

    "His intent was not just beyond a reasonable doubt, it was beyond all doubt," Lim said.

    Mandell argued that the eyewitness identifications and forensic evidence might have provided a basis for a defense had not Cash testified.

    "None of this matters now because Omar Cash admitted he shot Muliek Brown," Mandell told the jury.

    Instead, Mandell argued that the killing was a result of the "code of the streets" in a poor, crime-plagued neighborhood of the city.

    "To decide this case you have to get inside the head and mind of Omar Cash," Mandell added. "Think hard and then you have to decide what kind of responsibility he must bear for what he did."

    Cash's streak of escaping convictions ran out in 2010 when a Bucks County jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in the May 2008 kidnapping and killing of an immigrant carpenter - shot and dumped along a Bensalem highway - and the repeated rape of the victim's 41-year-old female companion, who later escaped from a Lawrenceville, N.J., motel.

    The Bucks jury spared his life and Cash was sentenced to life without parole for murder.

    Cash testified in his defense in that trial too. He denied killing the man and said the woman was a prostitute he met at the motel through an acquaintance who was a pimp.

    The latest jury did not hear about the earlier cases during the trial but will on Tuesday when prosecutors begin making their case for the death penalty.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20...vbOmke3Hd6m.99
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    Jurors mull death penalty in 2008 Philly car wash slaying for Bucks County killer

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jurors who convicted a man in the execution-style slaying of another man outside a northeast Philadelphia car wash five years ago have begun hearing arguments on whether he should receive a death sentence or spend life in prison.

    Omar Sharif Cash, 31, was found guilty last week in the 2008 killing of 29-year-old Muliek Brown. He is already serving life without parole for a murder, carjacking and rape in Bucks County.

    Prosecutor Peter Lim called the case "the rare circumstance where (the death penalty) is not about the vileness of the specific murder but the terrible nature of the person involved," according to The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/17oBdHh).

    Jurors in Bucks County deadlocked in 2010 on whether Cash deserved a death sentence, resulting in an automatic term of life without the possibility of parole.

    The female victim in that case tearfully testified Tuesday that Cash carjacked her and her fiance, shot him to death and then drove her to a motel and raped her several times before she managed to escape.

    Defense attorney Earl Kauffman urged jurors to look beyond his client's record and consider a troubled childhood that left him to turn to the streets at the age of 6.

    "The situation in Bucks County was brutal. I'm not going to even argue the situation with Muliek Brown," Kauffman said. "The question is, how the hell did he end up in that situation?"

    http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.c...f47ab85b3.html

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    Omar Cash sentenced to death

    Omar Sharif Cash - already serving life for a Bucks County carjacking that ended in the murder of a man and rape of his fiancee - was sentenced to death Friday by a Philadelphia jury for the 2008 execution-style slaying of a man outside a Frankford car wash.

    The Common Pleas Court jury of 10 women and 2 men, which took 35 minutes to find Cash guilty of first-degree murder on Nov. 7, spent barely 90 minutes to sentence him to death by lethal injection.

    As the jury's announced its decision, Cash, 31, blinked his eyes rapidly, his mouth drawn into a half-grimace half-smile.

    Cash did not apologize or comment on the April 21, 2008, slaying of 19-year-old Muliek Ronald Brown before Judge Sandy L.V. Byrd formally imposed the death sentence.

    Brown was polishing the wheel rims of his Mercury Marquis outside the Winning Edge Car Wash on Frankford Avenue when witnesses said Cash crept up behind him and shot Brown in the back of the head.

    Cash testified that he shot Brown in a case of "kill or be killed." Cash said Brown and other members of a local gang were hunting for him and had shot at him.

    Assistant District Attorneys Carlos Vega and Peter Lim called Cash's version of events a "fabrication." They said there was no evidence Brown, or anyone else, had shot at Cash. Brown, the prosecutors said, had no criminal record, worked full time and was married and the father of a young son.

    Under Pennsylvania law, Cash's conviction and sentence is automatically appealed to the state Supreme Court.

    Cash will now be transferred to the state prison in Rockview, where executions take place, and will be confined to a cell for 23 hours a day.

    Attorney Earl G. Kauffman, who with Lee Mandell defended Cash, said Cash rejected plea offers from the District Attorney's office that would have spared him from the death penalty.

    "We did everything we could," Kauffman said, referring to negotiations between defense and prosecution. "The only person who stopped us from de-deathifying this case was him."

    Kauffman had asked the jury to sentence Cash to life without parole, citing Cash's "atrocious childhood" - child of alcoholic-drug users, abandoned at age 6 and institutionalized by age 10.

    The jury said it agreed with Kauffman's description of Cash's personal history but those facts did not outweigh his long history of violent crime.

    Brown's grandmother, Lenora Barnes, 57, said she was pleased with the jury's decision.

    "I thank God that justice was served," Barnes said. "We can sleep now. It feels like the weight of the world has been lifted off us."

    Cash had become almost legendary in law enforcement for escaping conviction. A 2009 Inquirer series detailed how a rape case was dismissed when the victim failed to appear at trial, an attempted-murder case failed when the victim hanged himself, and a robbery case sank when the alleged victim fled.

    Cash's streak ran out in 2010 when a Bucks County jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the May 2008 kidnapping and killing of an immigrant carpenter while he was on the lam in the Brown killing.

    Cash shot the man dumped his body along a Bensalem highway. He then repeatedly raped of the victim's 41-year-old fiancee, who later escaped from a Lawrenceville, N.J., motel.

    The Bucks jury spared Cash's life, sentencing him to life without parole.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/news/br...CHHKv6Xm2SG.99
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    Nice that someone who has managed to avoid punishment for his crimes, will now face the ultimate punishment.

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    This guy should have pplayed the lottery when he was a free man.

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    Obviously his luck ran out.
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    PENNSYLVANIA v CASH

    Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

    Opinion Date: May 26, 2016

    In 2008, Appellant Omar Cash shot and killed Muliek Brown at a car wash in Philadelphia. The shooting was caught on the carwash’s surveillance video, which showed Brown cleaning the tire rims of his car and Appellant approaching him from behind and shooting him in the back of the head. Following the shooting, Appellant fled the scene, and Robert Green, a carwash employee who watched the shooting take place on a monitor inside the carwash’s office, called 911. As one police officer secured the scene, his partner, Officer Pross, was approached by Marcus Howard, who indicated that he saw a light-complexioned male with a “Muslim beard” and wearing a black hoodie and Capri shorts, consistent with Appellant’s appearance, flee the scene. Officers would ultimately secure Appellant's arrest in New York City; he was extradited back to Philadelphia where he was charged with first-degree murder. Appellant would be convicted by jury and sentenced to death. He raised several alleged errors warranting the overturn of his conviction. Finding none, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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    On August 9, 2016, Cash filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/pe...cv04320/520906

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

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District
    Case Nos.: (700 CAP)
    Decision Date: May 25, 2016

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....es/16-6014.htm

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    DOC Secretary signs Notice of Execution for Omar Sharif Cash

    Harrisburg, PA – According to a press release, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, signed a Notice of Execution setting August 15, 2017, for the execution of Omar Sharif Cash.

    The law provides that when the governor does not sign a warrant of execution within the specified time period, the secretary of corrections has 30 days within which to issue a notice of execution.

    Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on the death penalty in the state in 2015. Governor Wolf said at the time he wanted to review the anticipated report of the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Commission on Capital Punishment. No inmate has been executed in Pennsylvania since 1999.

    Cash was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 execution-style slaying of Muliek Brown at a car wash in Philadelphia. The shooting was caught on the carwash’s surveillance video, which showed Brown cleaning the tire rims of his car and Cash approaching him from behind and shooting him in the back of the head.

    Shortly after the Brown murder, Cash committed a carjacking, murdered a man, and repeatedly raped his finance before she was able to escape.

    https://www.google.com/amp/fox43.com...arif-cash/amp/
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