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Thread: Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. - Kansas Death Row

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    Convicted multiple murderer Carr caught possessing sexually explicit material

    By Tim Hrenchir
    The Topeka Capital-Journal

    State records show convicted multiple murderer Reginald D. Carr Jr., who faces a death sentence and spends 23 hours a day in his prison cell, was caught recently possessing sexually explicit material.

    Kansas Department of Corrections records posted online show that Carr, 36, was the subject of a disciplinary report filed March 17 for the possession of sexually explicit material by a convicted sex offender.

    Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay didn’t have details Monday of the violation. He said the corrections department is “very restrictive” in classifying material as being sexually explicit.

    The disciplinary report was the first since November 2009 for Carr, an inmate at El Dorado Correctional Facility.

    Carr and his brother, Jonathan Carr, were sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2002 on capital murder convictions linked to a 2000 case in which they invaded a Wichita home and subjected the three young men and two young women inside to sexual abuse. The Carrs then kidnapped them, took them to ATMs and robbed them. The Carrs next took the five people to a soccer field, where they fatally shot four execution-style and ran them over with a pickup truck. One victim, a woman, also was shot and run over but survived.

    The Carrs also were convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a woman shot four days before the other killings. Each has convictions for crimes that include murders and 23 sexual assaults.

    Barclay said the Carr brothers are in administrative segregation at the El Dorado facility, meaning they are kept in their cells 23 hours a day and only get out to exercise for one hour in a secure pen.

    Appeals filed on behalf of the brothers were heard in December by the Kansas Supreme Court. Lisa Taylor, spokeswoman for that court, said Monday it had yet to rule on the appeals.

    Reginald Carr also made news when the Associated Press in January 2007 reported he had taken out a personal ad on a website run by the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. A copy of the article is at http://bit.ly/QAVbfL.

    The AP reported that although Kansas prison inmates aren’t allowed to use personal funds to solicit mail through websites, they often have people outside prison post the information for them, which Carr did. The AP reported that while most sexually explicit photos mailed to inmates are confiscated in the mailroom, they sometimes slip through, which led to Carr’s receiving a disciplinary report in 2005 for having sexually explicit material.

    State corrections records show Reginald Carr has 11 disciplinary violations and Jonathan Carr has 23 since they entered the state’s prison system in November 2002. Reginald Carr also had violations during a previous prison term.

    Corrections department records show Jonathan Carr, 34, was disciplined for possessing sexually explicit material one time each in 2008, 2012 and 2013. His most recent disciplinary report, issued April 6, involved violating inmate activity limitations.

    The Carrs are among eight Kansas prison inmates facing death sentences. The others are:

    ■ Gary Kleypas, 58, convicted in the 1996 murder and sexual assault of a woman in Pittsburg. Corrections department records show Kleypas has four disciplinary reports since entering the prison system in 1998, with the most recent being for showing insubordination or disrespect to an officer in 2013.

    ■ John E. Robinson Sr., 70, convicted of the murders of two women in 2000 and of the murder of a woman who disappeared in 1985 and was never found, all in Johnson County. Robinson has no disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2003.

    ■ Douglas Belt, 52, convicted in the 2002 murder and sexual assault of a woman in west Wichita. Belt has 11 disciplinary reports since re-entering the system in 2004, with the most recent being for showing insubordination or disrespect to an officer in 2013.

    ■ Sidney Gleason, 34, convicted in the 2004 murders of two people in Barton County. Gleason has no disciplinary reports since re-entering the system in 2006.

    ■ Justin Thurber, 31, convicted in the 2007 murder and sexual assault of a woman in Cowley County. Thurber has no disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2009.

    ■ James Kraig Kahler, 51, convicted in the 2009 Osage County killings of his former wife, their two daughters and his wife’s grandmother. Kahler has two disciplinary reports since entering the system in 2011, with the most recent being for misuse of state property in 2012.

    http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-04-2...licit-material

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    If there ever was poster children for the dp, it would be the Carr brothers. Small town Kansas, 20 minutes from me. I simply cannot understand why they breathe the same air as the rest of the world. Kansas rarely hands out a dp, and then never follows through. They will die of old age on the taxpayer dollar long before they get a date with the needle.

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    State Supreme Court to issue ruling Friday on Carr brothers’ appeals

    After years of legal wrangling, the Kansas Supreme Court is scheduled to issue its opinion Friday on the appeals of convicted Wichita murderers Jonathan and Reginald Carr.

    The decision comes 12 years after the Carr brothers were convicted in one of the most notorious crimes in Wichita history.

    Jonathan Carr, 34, and Reginald Carr, 36, raised dozens of issues in their appeals.

    One of the objections was that the trial court denied the brothers’ motions that they be tried separately.

    During oral arguments conducted at different times on Dec. 17, defense lawyers told the Supreme Court that the brothers should get new, separate trials.

    Public defender Sara Ellen Johnson, Jonathan Carr’s attorney, said that Reginald Carr engaged in courtroom “antics,” turning jurors against both brothers.

    The brothers’ lawyers also contended that a decision by the judge to seat a strongly pro-death-penalty juror – who later became foreman – tainted the trial.

    Sedgwick County prosecutors objected, saying a new trial would result in the same outcome.

    The brothers are also challenging the constitutionality of Kansas’ death penalty.

    They were convicted and sentenced in 2002 for murdering five people during a crime spree in December 2000.

    They were found guilty in the killings of Jason Befort, 26; Brad Heyka, 27; Aaron Sander, 29; and Heather Muller, 25.

    The four were terrorized, robbed, sexually assaulted and kidnapped on Dec. 15, 2000, before being gunned down execution-style; they were forced to kneel in a frozen soccer field near 29th Street North and Greenwich.

    A fifth victim, a 25-year-old woman left for dead after being shot in the head, survived and was able to make her way to a nearby house and call police. A manhunt for the brothers soon began.

    The Carr brothers also were convicted of murdering Ann Walenta, 55, who was shot and mortally wounded Dec. 11, 2000, in an apparent carjacking and robbery.

    Since the convictions, Reginald Carr’s attorneys filed 23 extension requests before filing a written brief in October 2009. Jonathan Carr’s attorneys filed 20 extensions before filing their written brief in September 2009.

    The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office filed its brief for Reginald Carr’s appeal in October 2012 after requesting eight extensions. The D.A.’s brief on Jonathan Carr was filed July 2012 after nine extensions.

    The appeals process also stalled because of a legal dispute over the state’s capital punishment law.

    No one has been executed in Kansas since 1965.

    http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/24/356...#storylink=cpy
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    Pretty quick...I was just getting ready to post that!

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    I will not be out news'd! Especially with these two monsters!
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    Do you think the hitherto de facto abolitionist Kansas Supreme Court will actually uphold at least one of the two brothers' death sentences?

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    No. They will die of old age unless something changes here. Anyone know where they are with appeals?

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    Loren, just read the article in Post # 13 above.

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    Will be starting over. Already been way too long.

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    Has the Kansas Supreme Court ever upheld a death sentence? They need a big tornado to come in and blow that Court away.

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