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    Richard Bernard Moore - South Carolina Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    The charges in this case stem from the September 16, 1999 armed robbery of Nikki’s, a convenience store on Highway 221 in Spartanburg. According to Terry Hadden, an eyewitness, Moore walked into Nikki’s at approximately 3:00 a.m. and walked toward the cooler. Hadden was playing a video poker machine, which he did routinely after working his second shift job. Hadden heard Jamie Mahoney, the store clerk, yell, “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” Hadden turned from the poker machine to see Moore holding both of Mahoney’s hands with one of his hands. Moore turned towards Hadden, pointed a gun at him, and told him not to move. Moore shot at Hadden, and Hadden fell to the floor and pretended to be dead. After several more shots were fired, Hadden heard the doorbell to the store ring. He heard Moore’s pickup truck and saw him drive off on Highway 221. Hadden got up and saw Mahoney lying face down, with a gun about two inches from his hand; he then called 911. Mahoney died within minutes from a gunshot wound through his heart. A money bag with $1408.00 was stolen from the store.

    Shortly after the incident, Deputy Bobby Rollins patrolled the vicinity looking for the perpetrator of the crime. Approximately one and one-half miles from the convenience store, Deputy Rollins took a right onto Hillside drive, where he heard a loud bang, the sound of Moore’s truck backing into a telephone pole. He turned his lights and saw Moore sitting in the back of a pickup truck bleeding profusely from his left arm. As Deputy Rollins ordered him to the ground, Moore advised him, “I did it. I did it. I give up. I give up.” A blood covered money bag was recovered from the front seat of Moore’s pick-up truck. The murder weapon, a .45 caliber automatic pistol, was found on a nearby highway shortly before daylight.

    Moore was sentenced to death in Spartanburg County on October 22, 2001.

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    Moore's death sentence was affirmed on direct appeal by the South Carolina Supreme Court on March 1, 2004.

    http://law.justia.com/cases/south-ca...004/25786.html

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    On December 12, 2014, Moore filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/sou...cv04691/217130

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Moore's certiorari petition arising out of the denial of his state habeas petition.

    Lower Ct: Court of Common Pleas of South Carolina, Spartanburg County
    Case Nos.: (2004-CP-42-2715)
    Decision Date: August 1, 2011
    Discretionary Court Decision Date: September 11, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: October 24, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-9056.htm

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    On May 10, 2018, Moore's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...691/217130/155

    On September 20, 2019, oral argument will be heard before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/cal/inte...p182019ric.pdf

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    On March 3rd, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit UPHELD Moore's conviction and death sentence.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...?ts=1583263830
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