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    Funny, I just saw that episode of The Devil You Know on ID last week. It's worth a look see for those interested.
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    I flip flop regularly on the issue of the Death Penalty, a lot of the times I think it is harsh, but this guy 100% deserves it and in my opinion is the kind of person the Death Penalty should be reserved for.

    Hopefully he isnt alive for much longer.

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    Anthony Sowell's attorneys dispute prosecutors' claims that serial killer got fair trial

    Attorneys for condemned serial killer Anthony Sowell renewed claims this week that media attention prevented their client from getting a fair trial.

    They filed a response with the Ohio Supreme Court Thursday that challenges prosecutors' arguments that media attention did not bias jurors and that Sowell's right to a fair trial was not violated.

    "If anything, calling this case 'a media circus' is an understatement," the filing states. "A circus, after all, will eventually leave town. This one remains."

    The lawyers want the high court to convert Sowell's death sentence to life in prison.

    Sowell's response claims that the media attention was overwhelming, generating thousands of news stories, and that local coverage was "both frenzied and sustained."

    The Plain Dealer, alone, published about 270 "full stories," the document claims, including "intensely moving stories" that chronicled the life and death of each victim.

    The date and headline of more than half the stories are included in the filing.

    "Not surprisingly, not one of the stores listed above could be characterized as favorable, sympathetic or even neutral toward Sowell," the document states. "Going into his trial, however, prospective jurors were awash in this information."

    The document also reiterates earlier claims that Sowell's trial attorneys should have had their client plead guilty to killing the women and then focus their efforts on preventing Sowell from getting the death penalty.

    Sowell was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing 11 women and burying their bodies in and around his Imperial Avenue home in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland.

    http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...neys_refu.html
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    Sowell victims' families to appeal dismissal of lawsuit

    The family of Tonia Carmichael and the family of Nancy Cobb -- two of Anthony Sowell's 11 victims -- announced Tuesday that they will appeal a federal court judge dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the City of Cleveland regarding the killings on Imperial Avenue.

    The original lawsuit alleged that there was indifference and a lack of response from Cleveland police in their efforts to find the missing women, even after missing persons reports were filed.

    The families stood on Imperial Avenue when they made the announcement. They allege that Sowell's killing spree -- 2007 through 2009 -- continued unabated when no one was looking for the women he had killed.

    The lawsuit, first filed in May 2012, was dismissed as frivolous. The appeal is being filed in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Sowell was arrested on Oct. 31, 2009, tried in the summer of 2011, convicted, and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Dick Ambrose upheld the jury's recommendation of the death penalty and sentenced Sowell to death on Aug. 12, 2011.

    Sowell has new lawyers now and on Oct. 22, 2012, they appealed the death penalty that was imposed.

    The house on Imperial Avenue where Sowell lived and buried his victims inside and outside has been demolished.

    http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/310...sal-of-lawsuit
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    Families of Anthony Sowell's victims mark 4 years since Imperial Avenue; still waiting for memorial

    CLEVELAND - It is not easy for Adlean Atterberry to return to Imperial Avenue. “My daughter was buried right over the other side of that fence,” she said.

    Her daughter was Michelle Mason, one of the 11 victims of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell.

    Atterberry and Mason’s two sons did return though for a vigil Tuesday night marking the fourth anniversary of the discovery of the first bodies.

    "I avoid this street, yes, they going to put a memorial type thing up and I'll be glad when they do that," said Atterberry.

    Even though a memorial is planned, the fact that there isn’t one up yet four years later was upsetting to some family members. Especially considering the Seymour Avenue area surrounding the home of Ariel Castro has already been replanted with shrubs and flowers.

    “This isn't a memorial this is an empty field with some pebbles, this is not a memorial site, it's not, go to the west side that's a memorial site," said Lavita Kennedy.

    Donnita Carmichael, daughter of victim Tonia Carmichael said it’s all so tiring.

    “My mother was exhumed from that backyard and this is what I have to look at four years later,” she said. “It’s just sad, I’m just ready for change. I’m tired, it’s just enough.”

    That being said Carmichael was glad she came to the vigil that drew around one hundred people.

    "I'm not sorry I came out because I had the opportunity to see some of the other family members today, we have such a bond that cannot be broken and all of our lives are forever changed," she said.

    "I'm glad I came out to pay my mother respect, to pay the other victims respect and see the other families."

    Sowell was convicted and sentenced to death in 2011, the home at 12205 Imperial Avenue was torn down later that year.

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    Appeals court grants immunity to Cleveland prosecutor named in Anthony Sowell lawsuits

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An appeals court on Thursday absolved a city prosecutor of wrongdoing alleged in several lawsuits filed by the families of victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell.

    A three-judge panel of the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals ruled that Assistant City Prosecutor Lorraine Coyne is immune from being sued because she was acting in her position as a prosecutor when she decided not to charge Sowell in a suspected rape case in 2008.

    The appeals court affirmed a previous decision by a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge, which the plaintiffs had appealed.

    “We knew it was an uphill battle,” attorney Terry Gilbert said. “We thought Lorraine Coyne had dropped the ball and should have been included among the defendants.”

    Gilbert said he would discuss the appeals court’s decision with the other attorneys in the cases to decide whether to file a new appeal, or whether to move forward with the lawsuits, minus Coyne.

    Family members of Sowell’s 11 victims sued Coyne, the city, several Cleveland police officers, and others in 2010 and 2011, maintaining that some of Sowell’s murders were preventable. Sowell was convicted and sentenced to death.

    The lawsuit accused the defendants of failing to properly investigate an incident Dec. 8, 2008, in which Gladys Wade, 40, accused Sowell of choking her and dragging her into his home. The bleeding woman flagged down a police cruiser and told officers she fought her way out of Sowell’s Imperial Avenue home.

    The incident occurred less than a year before the bodies of the 11 murdered women were found in and around Sowell’s home in 2009.

    The lawsuit portrayed the attack and botched police investigation as a missed opportunity to catch Sowell and save the lives of five women who were killed after Wade filed her police report.

    The crux of the lawsuit remains in spite of the appeals court’s decision, Gilbert said: That Cleveland Sex Crimes Det. Georgia Hussein -- now retired -- exhibited “deliberate indifference” in her investigation of the December 2008 attack on Wade.
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    owell was a registered sex offender who had served about 15 years in prison for a previous conviction of attempted rape prior to the attack.

    In a sworn statement, Hussein admitted she failed to review evidence collected by patrol officers, including photos and clothing items collected from the crime scene, before presenting Wade’s case to Coyne.

    Hussein contended in her sworn statement that Wade did not have visible injuries consistent with her version of events, although the detective never reviewed medical records or photos taken of Wade after the attack.

    Hussein also never told her supervisors that she had returned to Sowell’s home and met with him after he was released from jail without being charged for attacking Wade.

    A county grand jury later charged Sowell with several crimes against Wade. Sowell was convicted on all but one of the charges.

    Cleveland officials have stood by Hussein’s investigation and Coyne’s decision not to pursue the case.

    The lawsuits seek compensation for the families of the victims, and ask that the city be required to review its investigative and prosecutorial polices.

    http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...l#incart_river
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    Ohio Supreme Court asks whether Anthony Sowell's right to a public trial was violated, attorneys respond

    By Rachel Dissell, The Plain Dealer

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In response to questions raised by the Ohio Supreme Court last month, attorneys are arguing over whether the judge who presided over serial killer Anthony Sowell's murder trial should have closed his courtroom to the public during an evidentiary hearing and while a jury was picked to hear the high-profile case.

    Sowell was convicted in 2011 of the murders of 11 women and rapes of several more who survived his attacks. The women's bodies were discovered at his Imperial Avenue home in 2009 after police went there to investigate a rape report.

    Sowell has a number of unresolved appeals that are pending before various courts as he attempts to get his case overturned.

    The questions the Ohio Supreme Court raised on its own involved whether Sowell's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated.

    The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio weighed in Friday, saying Sowell's rights were violated – and so were the First Amendment rights of the public.

    An ACLU "friend of the court" brief contends that Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose didn't detail or give any compelling reasons for closing the courtroom during those parts of Sowell's trial. "The Sowell trial was marred by the exact type of closed-door proceedings that our jurisprudence condemns," wrote ACLU attorney Freda Levenson.

    At the time the jury selection process was closed to the public, The Plain Dealer objected. But Ambrose ruled it was proper. He noted that Sowell's attorneys had requested that the jurors be questioned privately.

    Cuyahoga County prosecutors, in a response also filed Friday, said the courtroom was closed during a 2010 hearing on evidence in the case to protect Sowell's right to a fair trial and prevent any jury pool from being tainted. The hearing was over whether evidence in the case should be suppressed – or admitted as evidence in court.

    They argued that Sowell's conviction and death sentence should stand, however, a new hearing on whether to suppress evidence in the case should be held in public.

    As for the closed-door jury questioning, Sowell's attorneys were the ones who asked multiple times in his presence for the jury selection to be done privately, without cameras in the courtroom, according to a brief filed by assistant county prosecutors Christopher Schroeder and Katherine Mullin.

    The Cuyahoga County Public Defender's office is representing Sowell as part of the appeal. In its 39-page brief filed late Friday, attorneys Jeffrey Gamso and Erika Cunliffe argued that Sowell's defense team objected to the closing of the courtroom and that Ambrose violated Sowell's right to a public trial.

    The lawyers added, however, that if Sowell's defense team failed to properly object to the closing of the courtroom then he was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel and he deserves a new trial.

    The public defenders' original appeal to the court raised what they thought were at least 18 legal errors during the case. However, the ones addressed in the briefs filed today were not among them.

    http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...l#incart_river
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Five years later, Anthony Sowell case legal battles linger

    By Rachel Dissell, The Plain Dealer

    Five years after the first of 11 women's bodies were found at Anthony Sowell's Imperial Avenue home on the city's East Side, legal cases involving the serial rapist and murderer drag on.

    Sowell, who remains on death row at a state prison in Chillicothe, has been relatively quiet. He's been disciplined twice, once in 2012 for cussing at a prison guard and again in 2013 for accepting money – a total of $140 -- from two "murderabilia" website operators in exchange for his artwork and drawings.

    Sowell's criminal appeals

    Lawyers for Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of the murders of 11 women and rapes of several more who survived his attacks, have filed numerous appeals related to his conviction and death sentence.

    In his current Ohio Supreme Court appeal, public defenders argue that Sowell's trial lawyers botched the case by wasting time defending against his inevitable conviction rather than trying to save Sowell's life. The trial defense, which cost more than $500,000, was one of the most expensive in county history.

    In addition, the court raised its own questions to defense attorney and prosecutors about whether Sowell's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when potential jurors in the case were questioned privately, instead of in open court and when a hearing on potential evidence to be used in the case was closed.

    The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office said Sowell's attorneys were the ones who asked for the public to be excluded from court to protect from tainting a jury pool. His attorneys also requested that potential jurors not be questioned in public, they said.

    County Public Defenders, who are handling his appeal, argue that if indeed Sowell's defense team of John Parker and Rufus Simms failed to properly object to the courtroom being closed that they had failed in their duties to uphold his rights.

    Sowell civil cases

    Sowell victims and family members have filed multiple civil lawsuits against the killer and other public officials and employees
    in Cleveland, Warrensville Heights and Cuyahoga County.

    A lawsuit against several Cleveland sex crimes detectives and supervisors and the city by family members representing the estates of 10 of the 11 murdered women and two surviving victims is set for a February 2015 trial in Cuyahoga County Common
    Pleas Court. Judge Nancy Fuerst is handling the case.

    The suit, which accused the city employees of failing to properly investigate Sowell, was originally filed in 2010, was put on hold until after Sowell's criminal trial.

    It resumed but was put on hold briefly again last year after some involved in the suit disagreed with a court ruling that a city prosecutor could not be sued for her decision not to charge Sowell in a 2008 attack, which led to his release from jail.

    A $42 million federal lawsuit filed by the family of Tonia Carmichael, who went missing 2008 and was later the first identified Sowell victim, was dismissed in 2013. The suit alleged authorities in Cleveland and Warrensville Heights discriminated against

    Carmichael by failing to promptly investigate missing persons claims involving African-American women. Cleveland police initially declined to take a report from Carmichael's family.

    Attorneys appealed that dismissal and the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld that decision in July.

    http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...l#incart_river
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Sausage seller’s battle to erase stench of death after serial killing next door

    Emma Reynolds
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    “SHOP where it pays, bring home the Ray’s,” reads the slogan, but behind the cheery facade, this sausage emporium is locked in a bitter struggle to erase the stench of the past.

    For years, people living near the meat specialists in Cleveland, Ohio, kicked up a stink about a foul odour emanating from the Imperial Avenue premises, and the business looked in serious jeopardy. The family who owned Ray’s Sausage spent a reported $20,000 on industrial cleaning in an effort to remove the rancid smell of rotting flesh.

    Then the truth emerged: it came from the 11 decomposing bodies the serial killer next door had buried under his home.

    Police found two corpses in one room of Anthony Sowell’s home, and nine others in the rest of the house, with a human head left in a bucket. He was convicted in 2011 of murdering the 11 women and of raping several others who survived. He had already spent 15 years in jail for attacking a pregnant woman.

    The “Cleveland Strangler” was given the death sentence, but is still alive, with his lawyers filing appeal after appeal over the years since. Ray’s has been left trying desperately to clear the air and fix a serious image crisis.

    For several years before Sowell was caught in 2009, staff at the meat shop complained of the disgusting smell, that grew particularly nasty at certain times of day. An inspector reported the problem, and brother-and-sister managers Renee Cash and Raymond Cash Jr forked out for new plumbing fixtures, sewer lines and grease traps, and then incense and candles to cover the smell. Nothing worked.

    When the ghastly source of the stench was finally discovered, things got worse for Ray’s. The street was covered in police tape, passers-by would stop and leave tributes and the sausage seller became known across the US, for all the wrong reasons.

    “I want to succeed and expand to every state,” chief financial officer Leslie Cash told The Plain Dealer at the time. “But it’s hard. The talk. The jokes. It’s sickening to come to work, being linked to the Sowell name.”

    The murder house was boarded up, but rubbish was left piled on the balcony and weeds sprang up on the shallow graves, with rats gravitating to the area. The scent of decay returned whenever it rained. The city promised to relocate Ray’s, but never did, Cash Jr complained a year later.

    So the entrepreneurial family began a determined effort to clean up the 60-year-old meat merchant’s image. Ray’s is raising money to move to a larger building with a state-of-the-art processing plant. It featured in an episode of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods in 2013 with TV personality Andrew Zimmern praising its popular “souse” — a potted meat made from pig snouts, ears, and tongues. “They use a secret family recipe that includes extra steps that make a final product that Andrew says is intensely porky, but not swine-y,” read the show’s website.

    The company’s Facebook page displays several glowing reviews. “How can I get some beef and hot pork souse sent to me in Florida by Christmas?”

    “I live in Yokohama, Japan and wish I could have Ray’s again ... Nothing can compare to Ray’s! It’s the best!”

    But while Ray’s wants its link to Sowell forgotten, the women who survived the gruesome attacks want the world to remember them. The Cleveland killer targeted African American women with drug addictions and mental illnesses, believing society would not care as much about their fate, and he appears to have been proven right.

    Vanessa Gay, who was attacked and raped by Sowell and saw a decomposing body wrapped in tape in his bathroom, told The Plain Speaker last year she had received no support after the original court hearing. She compared her abandonment to the global outcry when three white women were discovered locked in Ariel Castro’s basement on the other side of Cleveland.

    That house was razed and replaced with a garden. Sowell’s home was demolished but remains empty, a barren reminder of the horror that happened there.

    Ray’s is moving onwards and upwards, but its reputation is hard to shake, with the story reappearing on social media on a regular basis.

    The business’s website and Facebook page paint a picture of easy success, but among the praise, one comment is a reminder that the firm still can’t quite get rid of that off-putting whiff: “It smell so nasty over there.”

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    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Date set for oral arguments for new Anthony Sowell trial

    COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Supreme Court has set April 4 as the date for oral arguments for a new trial for convicted Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell.

    The announcement was made Wednesday, a day after WKYC reported that the memorial for Sowell's victims will see a groundbreaking Memorial Day of 2016, according to organizers.

    Attorneys for Sowell contend that there should be a new trial because Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose wrongly closed a portion of the jury selection in the trial.

    They also contend that a July 2010 hearing in which lawyers argued over an hours-long video of Sowell's interview with Cleveland police officers was improperly held.

    Sowell, 56, sits on Ohio's death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution.

    The first two bodies were found on Oct. 29, 2009.

    He was arrested on Oct. 31, 2009 and indicted on 85 counts of murder, kidnapping, rape, and abuse of a corpse after a search inside and outside of his Imperial Avenue home in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland revealed the remains of 11 women.

    On July 22, 2011, Sowell was convicted of 81 counts. He originally pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but later changed his plea to not guilty.

    On Aug. 10, 2011, jurors recommended the death penalty.

    Two days later, Ambrose upheld the jury's recommendation. He also specified that Sowell's execution date be Oct. 29, 2012, the anniversary of the first bodies being found.

    Sowell appealed and the execution did not go forward.

    On Dec. 6, 2011, Sowell's three-story home was demolished. Dubbed the "House of Horrors," a wrecking crew took about 90 minutes to level it.

    In its place a garden -- the Garden of 11 Angels -- was to be erected and a start was made in October 2014.

    TIMELINE

    Here's a complete timeline of the Sowell trial and his background.

    Anthony Sowell was born on Aug. 19, 1959, into a working-class East Cleveland home. His father was a construction worker who moved out while his son was still an infant, leaving the child's mother, who worked for a dry cleaner, to raise him and a younger sister.

    He attended Shaw High School and took shop classes, according to Cleveland Metropolitan School District records. He went there for four years but lacked enough credits to graduate.

    So he joined the U.S. Marine Corps on Jan, 24, 1978. Nine months later, a local woman gave birth to Sowell's daughter. He spent time in North Carolina, California and Okinawa, Japan with the Marines.

    He took some GED classes and worked as an electrician. He married a fellow Marine in 1981. At one point, he went AWOL for two months. His discipline included being knocked down in rank. He was a sergeant in 1985 when he received an honorable discharge on Jan. 18.

    He and his wife divorced in 1985. In 1987, Sowell was convicted of domestic violence when he was 28. Two years later, in 1989, police suspected him of aggravated burglary but didn't have enough evidence to charge him.

    In 1990, he went to a motel on Euclid Avenue and told a woman he knew from around the neighborhood that her boyfriend wanted him to take her to his place. The woman, who was pregnant at the time, told police he bound, gagged and raped her.

    He was charged with kidnapping, attempted rape and rape. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1990. While inside, he worked as an assembler, cook, electrician, food cart attendant, porter and a yard crewman. He also got his GED.

    He also completed the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program along with programs for anger management, drug awareness and positive personality change. He applied to a sexual offender treatment program in 1993, but wasn't accepted because he denied he had committed a sex crime.

    On June 20, 2005, Sowell was released from prison. He moved in with his father and stepmother at 12205 Imperial Avenue. He registered with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office as a sex offender and was required to check in with them once a year.

    In September, 2009, Sowell invited a woman he knew to his home for a drink. On Sept. 22, 2009, she reported to police that, after a few drinks, he became angry, hit her, choked her and raped her as she passed out.

    On Oct. 29, 2009, police arrived at his Imperial Avenue home with a warrant to arrest him for the alleged rape. He was not there, but they found two bodies lying on the floor in the living room. He was located and arrested two days later.

    The bodies of four other women were found throughout the home, buried in a shallow grave in the basement and in crawl spaces in the house, bringing the total of bodies in the home to 6.

    After digging in the backyard, investigators found three more bodies and the remains of a fourth. Police also found a human skull in a bucket inside the house, bringing the final body count to 11.

    On Oct. 31, 2009, Sowell was arrested walking down Mount Auburn Avenue, about one mile from his home. On Nov. 3, 2009, the Cuyahoga County prosecutors originally charge Sowell with five counts of aggravated murder for the women that had already been identified.

    In all, Sowell has been charged with 11 counts of murder and multiple counts of kidnapping, rape and abuse of a corpse.

    He was originally scheduled to go to trial in the fall of 2010 but that was delayed until Feb. 14. Defense attorneys then asked for more time and were given a new trial date of June 6.

    Although they asked again for a continuance on June 3, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose, a former linebacker for the Cleveland Browns football team, denied their request.

    Jury selection was to start June 6 but Ambrose secretly started the selection June 3. Two hundred potential jurors were selected for the jury pool.

    A jury was seated and sworn in on June 24. The trial is scheduled to begin on June 27. It could last two months or longer. More than 130 witnesses are expected to be called during the trial.

    http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/cleve...trial/45490311

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