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    Armenia Levi Cudjo, Jr. - California




    Facts of the Crime:

    A jury convicted petitioner Armenia Levi Cudjo of the March 21, 1986 first-degree murder of Amelia Prokuda. The jury found that Cudjo committed this murder with the use of a deadly weapon, and while engaged in the commission of robbery and burglary. The jury also convicted Cudjo of one count each of robbery with the use of a deadly weapon and burglary of an inhabited dwelling.

    Cudjo was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on May 31, 1988.

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    On November 26, 2008, Cudjo 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.../ca9/08-99028/

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    ARMENIA CUDJO, JR. V. ROBERT AYERS, JR.

    In today's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, the court REVERSED and REMANDED the district court's denial of Cudjo's writ of habeas corpus.
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    On November 5, 2012, the Ninth Circuit denied the State of California's request for a rehearing en banc.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...les/12-971.htm

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    On May 28, 2013, the US Supreme Court denied the State of California's certiorari petition.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...les/12-971.htm

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    On January 6, 2014, Cudjo'a habeas petition was GRANTED in Federal District Court.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/dis...?ts=1389167833

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    The new DA in LA, George Gascon, has pledged not to seek the death penalty in any case and try to reduce all the death sentences from his county so Cudjo is now very unlikely to get resentenced to death if he is reconvicted.

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    Death sentence commuted and Cudjo is now eligible for parole.

    https://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/De...aspx?ID=D87801
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