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    Arthur Jerome Bomar - Pennsylvania Death Row


    Aimee Willard





    Facts of the Crime:

    Arthur Bomar was found guilty of the 1996 slaying of a college athlete who was abducted from her car at a highway off-ramp, raped, beaten and dumped in a vacant Philadelphia lot. Bomar had no reaction to the verdict in the death of Aimee Willard. He was found guilty of first-degree murder, rape, assault, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse.

    Bomar was sentenced to death in Delaware County on December 4, 1998.

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    On April 21, 2004, Bomar filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/pen...v01730/164764/

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    Judge denies death-penalty appeal by athlete’s killer

    A Delaware County Court judge denied the latest death-penalty appeal from Arthur J. Bomar, who was convicted of killing college athlete Aimee Willard in 1996, the district attorney announced Tuesday.

    Judge Frank T. Hazel issued a 213-page opinion addressing 22 claims by Bomar in his appeal, making any future appeals on the same grounds more difficult.

    The case has already been appealed to the state Supreme Court.

    District Attorney Jack Whelan on Tuesday called Bomar "every parent's worst nightmare."

    About 1:30 a.m. June 20, 1996, Willard was on I-476 driving home to Brookhaven from a Main Line bar when Bomar bumped her car from behind. The 22-year-old George Mason University lacrosse star pulled over on the southbound Springfield-Lima exit off-ramp. Bomar raped her, then beat her to death and dumped her body in a vacant lot in North Philadelphia.

    Her car was found still running on the off-ramp. A tree planted by friends marks the location of the crime.

    Bomar was on parole for a 1978 murder in Nevada when he murdered Willard.

    Bomar, who is incarcerated at SCI-Greene in Waynesburg, is also the main suspect in the death of Maria Cabuenos, 25, a lab technician who disappeared in 1997, nine months after Willard's death. When he was arrested in June 1997 for a parole violation, he was driving Cabuenos' car. Her body was found in 1998 on New Year's Day in Bucks County.

    After an 11-day trial, Bomar was convicted and later sentenced to death for Willard's slaying.

    In the recent appeals, Bomar cited numerous issues, including: ineffective counsel; inappropriate contact by jurors with the Sheriff's Department; that he was incompetent when he stood trial; that witnesses received consideration when they testified against him; and that his conviction was based on "false and misleading DNA evidence."

    "You name it, they claimed it," said William R. Toal III, assistant district attorney,

    Toal said he had been in contact with Paul Willard, the victim's father and a former Chester City police officer.

    "Clearly he understands this is not likely the end of the process," Toal said.

    http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20...es_killer.html

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    Pennsylvania v. Bomar

    Opinion Date: November 21, 2014

    Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

    In this capital case, Appellant Arthur Bomar appealed the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County that denied his petition for relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act (“PCRA”). Appellant was subsequently charged with first-degree murder, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, and abuse of a corpse for the 1997 death of Aimee Willard. While Appellant’s appeal from resentencing was pending, counsel from the Federal Community Defender Office (“FCDO”) for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Capital Habeas Unit filed on Appellant’s behalf a “Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief Pursuant to Article I, Section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution Statutory Post-Conviction Relief Under the Post-Conviction Relief Act [...],” which was deemed to be an amended PCRA petition. The PCRA proceedings were stayed pending the conclusion of Appellant’s direct appeal. The Superior Court affirmed Appellant’s judgment of sentence on the remaining offenses, and the Supreme Court denied allocatur. Nine months later, Appellant’s counsel filed a motion seeking an order declaring Appellant incompetent to proceed. Following a hearing on the matter and briefing by both parties, the PCRA court found Appellant competent and denied the motion. Thereafter, the Commonwealth filed a response to Appellant’s PCRA petition on March 31, 2008, and evidentiary hearings on appellant’s petition took place on July 17, 2007, May 28, 2008, November 5-7, 2008, January 15-16, 2009, April 28-29, 2009, September 24, 2009, October 20-21, 2009, February 1-3, 2010, July 28, 2010, November 29, 2011, January 20, 2011, and November 29, 2011. The PCRA court ultimately denied Appellant’s petition on March 28, 2012. Appellant filed a notice of appeal on April 23, 2012, and, on September 4, 2012, the PCRA court filed an extensive 213 page opinion addressing, and rejecting as meritless, each of the 22 claims in Appellant’s PCRA petition. Of those claims, he raised nine to the Supreme Court. Finding no reversible error as alleged in any of appellant's nine claims, the Supreme Court affirmed denial of PCRA relief.
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    On March 31, 2023, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Bomar's habeas petition. No certificate of appealability issued.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...64764.67.0.pdf

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