Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of three-year-old Tevin Hammonds. The state presented evidence that Loyd has admitted to molesting 15 children during his life.
Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of three-year-old Tevin Hammonds. The state presented evidence that Loyd has admitted to molesting 15 children during his life.
Crisp County death row inmate to appeal his case before state Supreme Court ---- Roger Lynn Loyd was convicted of sexually assaulting and then strangling a 3-year-old boy in Cordele.
A man sentenced to die by the state after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting and strangling a 3-year-old boy to death, is asking the state's highest court to overturn his conviction because lawyers say he was "stressed out," at the time he confessed.
Roger Lynn Loyd was indicted in 1999 for abducting and killing a 3-year-old after the boy's mother left Lloyd with the boy to briefly run errands in 1998.
During jury selection, Loyd yelled out in open court that he was "ready to end this," and, above the judge and his lawyers objections said that he wanted "to plead guilty to this crap today," with no regard to the fact the state was seeking the death penalty because "it doesn't matter to me if you give me what the State is looking for, because from what I done to the 3-year-old child, that’s exactly what I deserve…"
According to supreme court officials, Loyd's attorneys are now arguing that his confession wasn't "voluntarily given," as required by law, when he yelled out in court because he was "stressed out," and on medication at the time.
They also argue that he was misinformed by prosecutors that he could not withdraw his plea once it was entered, even though under Georgia law you can withdraw a guilty plea at any time before sentencing.
Prosecutors counter saying that Loyd entered his plea voluntarily and "fully acknowledged his guilt," and that his understanding of the plea was "crystal clear," when he made it.
Loyd's lawyers also contend that he was brain damaged during a crash earlier in his life and suffered from a variety of mental issues.
At sentencing, prosecutors presented evidence that in 1987 he entered a plea to the rape of a 13-year-old Illinois girl; admitted he daily molested a 4-year-old girl and told police he’d molested probably 15 children, according to court officials.
The court is scheduled to take the case at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Atlanta.
(Source: The Albany Herald)
In today's Georgia Supreme Court opinions Loyd's conviction and death sentence were affirmed.
Opinion here
State Court Upholds Death Penalty in Crisp County Case
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence ordered for a Crisp County man in the 1998 killing of a 3-year-old boy.
The court on Monday unanimously upheld the sentence for 48-year-old Roger Lynn Loyd in the killing of Tevin Hammonds.
Evidence at Loyd's trial showed the child's mother left him with Loyd, who admitted to police after a search began that he had killed the child and left the body in a mound of dirt.
The high court ruled the trial court did not err by failing to grant a postponement to study a psychological profile of the defendant. It said that at the sentencing trial, the court heard from several mental health professionals who testified that Loyd had a history of severe mental illness.
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/sto...8883&catid=175
And without a whiff of media coverage, Loyd has apparently died. http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/Research...w_Jan_2012.pdf
Thatīs how all of them should go - without media coverage.
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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