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    Zane Jack Fields - Idaho






    Facts of the Crime:

    On February 11, 1988, Zane Jack Fields stabbed 69-year-old Mary Katherine Vanderford to death while stealing about $50 from the Wishing Well Gift Shop, the store in which she was working. Ms. Vanderford was alone in the store at the time, and there were no eyewitnesses to the murder. She bled to death due to a stab wound in her neck.

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Fields' petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.

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    On May 25, 2011, the Idaho Supreme Court denied Fields' third application for post-conviction relief after having dismissed his fourth one.

    http://law.justia.com/cases/idaho/su.../36508-12.html

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    Idaho death row inmate's latest appeal dismissed

    The state Supreme Court rejected a condemned Idaho killer's latest bid for a new trial, saying admissible evidence didn't support his claims and he missed important deadlines.

    The justices on Wednesday upheld a state court's dismissal of Zane Jack Fields' sixth appeal since he was convicted and sentenced to die two decades ago.

    Prosecutors say the now-55-year-old from Idaho Falls stabbed 69-year-old Mary Katherine Vanderford to death on Feb. 11, 1988, and stole about $50 from her business, the Wishing Well Gift Shop in Boise. Vanderford was stabbed repeatedly in the back, chest, arm, head and throat with a large knife, but lived long enough to call 911.

    Field was convicted and sentenced to die in 1991 after prosecutors said he told a fellow inmate he killed Vanderford while he was in jail on an unrelated aggravated assault conviction.

    In his latest appeal, Fields says he's innocent and contends other prisoners lied to authorities when they said he claimed responsibility for Vanderford's death.

    In their eight-page unanimous ruling, the justices concluded that District Judge Thomas Neville properly dismissed Fields' claim.

    That's because the high court said some evidence wasn't admissible in court under Idaho law. A 2011 declaration from inmate Harold Gilcrist apparently confessing to making false statements wasn't notarized, according to Justice Pro Tem Jesse Walters, who wrote Wednesday's decision.

    "The declaration plainly is not an affidavit because it lacks notarization," Walters wrote. "Nor does the declaration possess any other indicia of authenticity. Based on the declaration's deficiencies, the district court properly rejected it as support for Fields's claims."

    Additionally, the justices said Fields' bid for a new trial missed key deadlines.

    According to Idaho law, he had 42 days after he was convicted and sentenced to die to file a legal or factual challenge "that is known or reasonably should be known."

    Fields says he learned of the inmate's supposed false testimony some 20 years after his sentence. But the justices said Fields' petition hadn't adequately demonstrated that he filed his appeal before the deadline for doing so expired.

    "Based on the information provided by Fields, it is impossible to determine when it would be reasonable for Fields to know he had a claim based on Gilcrist's alleged actions," Walters wrote.

    Some of Fields' previous appeals have been dismissed on similar grounds.

    http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Idah...234003291.html
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    On October 27, 1995, Fields filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/id...95cv00422/7274

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    Death row inmate found dead at prison south of Boise; second inmate death in 3 days

    There were no obvious signs of foul play in either death, and the two deaths at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution do not appear to be related, Idaho Department of Correction spokesman Jeff Ray said.

    Both deaths are under investigation by the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, a routine step for all unattended deaths at the prison complex south of Boise, and the cause of death in each case will be determined by the county coroner’s office, Ray said.

    Zane Jack Fields, sentenced to death in 1991 for stabbing a woman during a robbery at a Boise gift shop, was found unresponsive in his cell about 7 a.m. Monday, according to an IDOC news release. Fields, 58, was declared dead an hour later, and the news release said he appeared to have died of natural causes.

    Shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday, a correctional officer found Danny Cordova unresponsive in his cell, and the 59-year-old was declared dead less than an hour later. Cordova was serving a 10- to 25-year Ada County sentence for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under 16.

    Information about the Ada County Sheriff’s Office investigations into the two deaths was not immediately available.

    IMSI is a 516-bed maximum security prison for men.

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/l...141044228.html
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