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

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Kansas
    Case Nos.: (90,196)
    Decision Date: November 6, 2015
    Rehearing Denied: January 28, 2016
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    High court rejects Kan. serial killer’s death penalty appeal

    BY AMY RENEE LEIKER
    The Wichita Eagle

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the death penalty case of Kansas serial killer John E. Robinson Sr., meaning his capital murder conviction and sentence will stand for now, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a statement Monday morning.

    Robinson, 72, will now have an opportunity to pursue a second round of appeals, known in legal circles as collateral attacks. Those types of challenges – which originate in state court – include things like whether an attorney provided an effective defense and allegations of misconduct.

    After they are exhausted, Robinson can file a third set of appeals – these originating in federal court – before his execution would be carried out.

    Robinson – known for storing the bodies of his victims in barrels – was convicted of capital murder by a Johnson County jury in 2002 in connection with the murders of at least six women. In November, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld his death sentence during his direct appeal, prompting Robinson’s attorneys to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling.

    The death sentence was the first upheld by the Kansas Supreme Court since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1994. The court later upheld Scott Cheever’s death sentence.

    The last executions in Kansas, by hanging, were in 1965.

    Robinson is among 10 men awaiting execution in Kansas and is the first to exhaust the first set of appeals available to him. The other cases are all still working their way through the first set of appeals.

    Listed by the county and year of conviction, they are:

    ▪ Gary Kleypas (Crawford County, 2008): For the March 30, 1996, rape and murder of a Pittsburg State University student. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned his sentence in 2001, but another jury condemned him to death again in 2008.

    ▪ Jonathan and Reginald Carr (Sedgwick County, 2002): For four shooting deaths in Wichita during a crime spree in December 2000.

    ▪ Sidney Gleason (Barton County, 2006): For the shooting deaths of two people. Prosecutors said Gleason and his cousin Damian Thompson worried that one of the victims would tell police about their involvement in the stabbing and robbery of a 76-year-old man.

    ▪ Scott Cheever (Greenwood County, 2007): For the January 2005 shooting of Sheriff Matt Samuels at a home near Virgil, where authorities also found a suspected methamphetamine lab. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned Cheever’s conviction in 2012, saying his right against self-incrimination was violated by prosecutors who used a court-ordered mental evaluation from a different trial against him. A year later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision, noting that Cheever’s own expert raised the issue of whether methamphetamine use had damaged his brain. After a second look, the Kansas Supreme Court in June ruled the conviction and death sentence would stand.

    ▪ Justin Thurber (Cowley County, 2009): For the January 2007 abduction, sexual assault and killing of a 19-year-old Cowley College student. Her body was found in a wooded area near where her car had been sunk in a lake.

    ▪ James Kraig Kahler (Osage County, 2011): For the November 2009 murders of his estranged wife, her grandmother and his two daughters. Kahler was reportedly upset that his wife had allegedly taken a female lover and filed for divorce.

    ▪ Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (Johnson County, 2015): For the April 2014 shooting deaths of three people outside Kansas City-area Jewish sites.

    ▪ Kyle Trevor Flack (Franklin County, 2016): For the shooting deaths of three adults and an 18-month-old child.

    The Kansas Supreme Court is also considering the direct appeal of an 11th death-row inmate, Douglas Belt, who was convicted of the June 25, 2002, sexual assault and decapitation of Lucille Gallegos in Wichita. Belt died in prison in April, but his appeal remains active.

    Justices heard oral arguments in his case in September and plan to issue a ruling at a later date.

    http://www.kansas.com/news/local/cri...#storylink=cpy

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    Convicted serial killer who stored bodies in barrels appeals death sentence

    By Tony Rizzo
    The Wichita Eagle

    John E. Robinson Sr., the convicted serial killer who stored some of his victims’ bodies in barrels, has filed a motion to have his Johnson County death sentence thrown out.

    Robinson, 72, filed the motion Thursday in Johnson County District Court, alleging that his death sentence was imposed in violation of the Kansas and U.S. constitutions.

    He asked that a lawyer be appointed to assist him in the appeal.

    His case made national headlines in the summer of 2000 when investigators found the bodies of two women in barrels on property Robinson owned in Linn County, Kan., south of Kansas City.

    The bodies of three more women were also found barrels in a storage unit rented by Robinson in Cass County, Mo.

    Investigators also linked Robinson to three women who had not been seen since they disappeared in the 1980s. It was later determined that the infant daughter of one of those women had been raised by relatives of Robinson after he had engineered a phony adoption.

    Robinson and some of his victims were involved in the bond and discipline sexual lifestyle and shared a master-slave relationship.

    In 2002, a Johnson County jury found Robinson, who lived in Olathe at the time, guilty of killing three women over a period of 15 years, including the mother of the infant girl. He was subsequently sentenced to death.

    After the Johnson County trial, Robinson pleaded guilty in Cass County to five counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

    Last year, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld most of the convictions and the death sentence in the Johnson County case.

    And last month, the U.S. Supreme denied his request for a hearing.

    In Thursday’s filing, Robinson did not address his specific claims. He said he will need the help of a lawyer to properly prepare the appeal.

    http://www.kansas.com/news/local/cri...115606158.html
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