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    Arthur Lee Gales, Jr. - Nebraska




    Summary of Offense:

    Convicted of raping and strangling 13-year-old Latara Chandler and drowning her seven-year-old brother, Tramar, in Omaha in 2000.

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    Inmate Personal Information

    DOB: 05/01/1965
    Race: Black
    Gender: Male


    Crime and Trial Information

    * County of conviction: Douglas
    * Number of counts: Two
    * Race of Victims: Black/Black
    * Gender of Victims: Male/Female
    * Date of crime: 11/17/2000
    * Date of Sentencing: 11/06/2001
    (first sentencing); 12/09/2003 (second
    sentencing)


    Legal Status

    Current Proceedings:
    Post‐conviction


    Attorney

    On appeal from second death
    sentence:
    Susan Bazis


    Court Opinions

    State v. Gales, 658 N.W.2d 604 (Neb. 2003) (affirming convictions
    but vacating sentence and remanding for new penalty phase); State
    v. Gales, 694 N.W.2d 124 (Neb.), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 947 (2005).


    Legal Issues

    On appeal after second death sentence:
    1. whether defendant was prejudiced by trial court's denial of his motion to sequester and individually question prospective jurors about
    their knowledge of previous sentencing in the case;
    2. whether evidence of defendant's prior convictions was self-authenticating;
    3. whether jury was required to unanimously agree on whether,
    disjunctively, the murder was heinous, or atrocious, or cruel;
    4. whether allowing State to make rebuttal argument, at aggravating circumstances phase of capital sentencing, was an abuse of discretion;

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    Nebraska inmate on death row for killing girlfriend's children dies in prison

    A Nebraska man on death row for murdering his girlfriend's children died in prison, officials said Monday.

    Arthur Lee Gales, 55, died early in the morning on April 3 at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. His sentence started Dec. 9, 2003. Gales was sentenced to death on charges out of Douglas County that included two counts of first-degree murder and a count of second-degree murder.

    He was convicted of killing his girlfriend's children in 2001 in Omaha. Police say 13-year old Latara Chandler and her 7-year-old brother Tramar were killed by Gales. Latara had been raped and strangled. Tramar drowned in a bathtub. Gales was sentenced to another 50 years for the attempted murder of their mother, who he had severely beaten.

    The cause of death has yet to be determined, but Gales was undergoing treatment for a medical condition.

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