Summary of Offense:
Was convicted of capital murder in 1996 in Clarke County. He was sentenced to death for the 1995 killings of Codera Bradley and Tony Roberts.
Summary of Offense:
Was convicted of capital murder in 1996 in Clarke County. He was sentenced to death for the 1995 killings of Codera Bradley and Tony Roberts.
On July 10, 2007, Jordan filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/mis...cv00069/55708/
Kelvin Jordan appeal rejected by supreme court
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the appeal from a death row inmate in a 20-year-old capital murder case.
Kelvin Jordan claimed his previous attorneys were constitutionally ineffective, that his death sentence is disproportionate and that the trial judge, the now-retired Judge Robert Bailey, erred in evidentiary decisions at trial.
Jordan and Frontrell Edwards were both convicted of murdering Tony Roberts and his 2-year-old son, Cordera Bradley, in Clarke County in 1996. According to court documents, the motive for the robbery was wanting money to go to a football game. The man and his son were killed so they couldn't be witnesses.
The Mississippi Supreme Court found Jordan's claims to be without merit, with one exception. The opinion clarified that Jordan’s claim of ineffective post-conviction-relief counsel would be proper for consideration, if presented by an attorney other than the attorney alleged to have been ineffective.
http://www.wtok.com/content/news/Kel...405497026.html
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
Court rejects motion in 1996 Clarke County murder case
The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected a motion for a rehearing in a 1996 death penalty Thursday.
In the case, a Clarke County jury convicted Kelvin Jordan, 39, of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death for both killings.
The convictions and sentences were later upheld, then Jordan filed a petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that his previous attorneys were constitutionally ineffective, that the death sentence is disproportionate, and that the trial judge erred in evidentiary decisions at trial.
According to court papers, Jordan and his cousin, Frontrell Edwards, were both convicted of murdering Tony Roberts and his 2-year-old son, Cordera Bradley, in Pachuta. The crime happened in October 1995.
In a December 2016 ruling, the court denied all of Jordan’s claims except his claim of ineffective post-conviction relief counsel. On that claim, the court said it could not move forward because attorneys are not permitted to raise claims of their own ineffectiveness.
http://www.meridianstar.com/news/loc...000ae3eb4.html
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