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    Man convicted of murdering woman, dumping body parts in Poconos formally sentenced to death

    By David Singleton
    The Times-Tribune

    Charles Ray Hicks Jr. has officially joined 186 other prisoners on Pennsylvania's death row.

    Monroe County President Judge Margherita Patti Worthington on Tuesday sentenced Hicks to death for the 2008 murder and dismemberment of Deanna Null, formally imposing the punishment handed down by a jury seven weeks ago.

    The sentence carries an automatic appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

    A Monroe County jury convicted Hicks, 40, Coolbaugh Township, on Nov. 14, of first-degree murder and other charges for the slaying of Null. The 36-year-old Scranton woman was killed in January 2008, and her body parts discarded in garbage bags along Interstates 380 and 80 in Monroe and Lackawanna counties.

    Null's mother and sister both briefly addressed the court before Judge Worthington sentenced Hicks.

    Jason A. LaBar, a Monroe County assistant public defender who represented Hicks at trial, called it a tragic situation.

    "There is not much to say from my perspective," LaBar said after Tuesday's sentencing. "I think it was a fair trial. I'm not happy with the result ... but I understand why the jury decided the way it did."

    He said the public defender's office, which is continuing to represent Hicks, will file a post-sentence motion in county court within 10 days challenging the weight and sufficiency of the evidence prosecutors presented during the trial.

    "Once it's denied or granted, we'll see where it heads then," he said.

    The sentencing cleared the way for Hicks to be transferred from the Monroe County Correctional Facility to the state prison system, probably within 30 days.

    Hicks, who did not testify at his trial, never denied dismembering Null's body but maintained he did not kill her, telling investigators after his arrest that she died of an accidental drug overdose.

    Authorities have said Hicks, who lived in Burleson, Texas, before moving to Pennsylvania, is a suspect in the unsolved homicides of several women in the Fort Worth area. Hicks has not been charged in connection with any of those cases.

    http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworl...20150106-story

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    State Supreme Court upholds murder conviction, death sentence of Charles Ray Hicks

    The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upheld a death sentence Tuesday of a man convicted of killing a woman, dismembering her and dumping her body parts along Interstate 80 and 380 in Monroe and Lackawanna counties.

    A jury convicted Charles Ray Hicks Jr. of Coolbaugh Twp. in 2014 for first-degree murder of the 36-year-old Scranton woman Deanna Null and other crimes in Monroe County Court. The jury, some weeping, sentenced him to death. Monroe County President Judge Margherita Patti Worthington formally imposed that decision weeks later.

    All death penalties are automatically reviewed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which can cancel the sentence.

    The state’s highest court did not. The court’s majority opinion found “sufficient evidence” to uphold the conviction. The seven-person court ruled in favor of the conviction and death sentence by a 5-2 vote.

    “Our careful review of the record reveals the (death) sentence was not the product of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor,” the judges wrote.

    The two dissenting justices, Christine Donohue and David Wecht, each wrote their own opinion.

    For the case of the 2008 murder, the Monroe County district attorney’s office considered dropping the death penalty against Hicks, now 42, in exchange for information on murders he’s suspected of committing in Texas, but he failed to provide sufficient information to seal the deal, a county detective said.

    http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/sta...icks-1.2173496
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Hicks' certiorari petition.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District
    Case Numbers: (718 CAP)
    Decision Date: March 28, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/16-9657.html

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    On October 27, 2017, Hicks filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/pe...cv01969/113818

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