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    Ohio death row inmate convicted of 1994 rape

    CLEVELAND (AP) - A man on Ohio's death row for the killing of a Cleveland police officer has been found guilty in a 1994 rape.

    Jurors in Cleveland convicted Quisi (KWEE'-zee) Bryan of rape and kidnapping Thursday following a three-day trial.

    A message seeking comment was left for Bryan's public defender.

    Bryan was indicted last summer after investigators found that his DNA matched a rape kit from a victim 20 years ago. Bryan already had been convicted in four other rape cases.

    The victim in this latest rape case testified at the trial against Bryan.

    He was sentenced to death in the 2000 killing of Cleveland police officer Wayne Leon. Bryan shot the officer in the face during a traffic stop.

    http://www.fox19.com/story/24843312/...d-of-1994-rape

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    Quisi Bryan is sentenced again

    One day after he was convicted in yet another rape case, this one in 1994, Quisi Bryan was sentenced to 20-to-50 years in prison by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge David Matia.

    Acting as his own attorney, the 43-year-old Bryan used his closing statement to thank the jury for their service, and accused Prosecutor Timothy McGinty of using his trial for political gain.

    He also called for indictments against Cleveland Police in the deaths of Melissa Williams and Timothy Russell, prompting Judge Matia to demand that Bryan stick to the facts of his own case.

    Bryan then stated that he was preparing for an appeal of his conviction in the death of Cleveland Police Officer Wayne Leon.

    Judge Matia wasn't impressed with Bryan's calm cool demeanor, and declared that his days of being a victimizer are over.

    Matia also criticized police and prosecutors for delays in investigating sex crimes against inner-city women, referring to media reports of rape kits not being tested in a timely manner.

    He said it is very important that Bryan's victims receive the support and counseling they need to recover from the trauma of being brutalized.

    The serial rapist now returns to Ohio’s death row for the June 2000 murder of Officer Leon.

    http://www.wtam.com/articles/wtam-lo...#ixzz2ueReEE3C
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    Federal judge orders new trial for man convicted of killing Cleveland Officer Wayne Leon in 2000

    TOLEDO, Ohio — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Quisi Bryan, on death row for killing Cleveland police Officer Wayne Leon in 2000, should receive a new trial.

    Senior U.S. District Judge James Carr ruled that the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, when trying Bryan's case 15 years ago, violated established case law when rejecting a prospective juror because she was black when both sides were picking the jury.

    In his 128-page ruling, which was in response to a petition Bryan filed in 2011, Carr wrote that the violation of case law was proven "clearly and convincingly."

    Bryan, 44, is imprisoned in the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. A jury convicted him of killing Leon during a traffic stop in Cleveland's Central neighborhood.

    He also is serving prison time for several sexual assault cases that happened prior to his arrest for Leon's killing.

    Lori Riga and Alan Rossman, the federal public defenders who worked on Bryan's petition, said in an emailed statement that they are pleased with Carr's decision.

    "Racism is offensive in any context," the statement reads. "It is particularly abhorrent when it taints a process as fundamental to our American values as the jury selection process."

    Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty, who was not the prosecutor when Bryan was convicted, indicated that he expects Carr's decision to be appealed.

    McGinty said in a statement that he is confident that Carr's decision will be reversed, since every court that has reviewed the case in the past 15 years has struck down Bryan's appeals.

    "But even if it is not, I am extremely confident that a jury will again convict Quisi Bryan and return him to death row," McGinty's statement says. "This case is even stronger now than it was 15 years ago."

    This story will be updated.

    Click here to read Carr's ruling on a mobile device.


    http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...l#incart_river
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    Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to appeal new trial in death penalty case

    CLEVELAND - An order from a federal judge to grant a convicted cop killer a new trial will be appealed by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, his office announced on Monday.

    Quisi Bryan, who was sentenced to death in the 2000 murder of Cleveland Police Officer Wayne Leon, had a new trial granted by U.S. District Judge James Carr on Thursday.

    "I strongly disagree with the federal court's order for a new trial," said DeWine in a written statement. "This defendant viciously took the life of an innocent law enforcement officer, leaving the officer's children without a father and his wife without a husband.

    My office will fight to keep this murderer on death row for this senseless crime."

    In August of 2000, a Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Bryan on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted murder and multiple counts of firearms-related offenses.

    Police said Bryan was pulled over by Leon on June 25, 2000, and that Bryan pulled a gun and shot the officer in the face.

    In February of 2001, Bryan was found guilty of aggravated murder, attempted murder, attempted robbery, possessing weapons under disability, carrying a concealed weapon, tampering with evidence, theft.

    Citing case Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), it was claimed the prosecution removed potential black jurors from the jury pool, “by using a peremptory strike to remove an African-American from the venire.”

    Bryan, 44, has been incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution since Feb. 27, 2001.

    In 2007, Bryan was later found guilty of impersonating a police officer and two counts each of sexual battery and abduction.

    In March of 2014, Bryan was found guilty of rape and kidnapping.

    http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-n...h-penalty-case

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    On August 2, 2016, oral argument will be heard in Bryan's appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The panel will be made up of Judges Siler (G.H.W. Bush), Rogers (G.W. Bush) and Donald (Obama).

    http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/sites/ca...012016_arg.pdf

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    In today's opinions, the Sixth Circuit VACATED the Federal District Court's granting of Bryan's habeas petition and REMANDED Bryan's case to Federal District Court for the purpose of dismissing it. Judge Donald dissented.

    http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opin...6a0289p-06.pdf

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    On January 24, 2017, the Sixth Circuit DENIED Bryan's petition for en banc rehearing.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search....es\16-9680.htm

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Bryan's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (15-3778, 15-3834)
    Decision date: December 15, 2016
    Rehearing denied: January 24, 2017
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    Nation's high court won't hear Cleveland cop killer Quisi Bryan's case

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a federal appeals court's decision to reinstate Cleveland cop killer Quisi Bryan's murder conviction and death sentence.

    The nation's top court included its decision on a list of cases it will not review in its current term.

    Bryan, 47, is on death row for killing Cleveland police officer Wayne Leon. He shot Leon in the face on June 25, 2000, after the officer pulled him over for a traffic violation in the city's Central neighborhood. Leon died instantly and Bryan was eventually captured in Columbus.

    Senior U.S. District Judge James Carr in Toledo overturned Bryan's convictions in 2015 and said Cuyahoga County prosecutors moved to remove a prospective black juror from Bryan's trial because of her race.

    The judge wrote that the prosecutor incorrectly stated the plot of a book and "directly and unilaterally injected a racial component into the equation. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Carr's decision 2-1 in December, ruling that the Toledo federal judge "improperly substituted its interpretation of the evidence for the findings of the trial judge."

    Bryan had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 6th Circuit's decision.

    Prosecutors are next expected to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to set Bryan's execution date, as courts have rejected a series of appeals to his convictions and death sentence. Even if the court sets an execution date, Bryan is expected to file more challenges to his case.

    Bryan also is serving prison time for several sexual assault cases that happened before his arrest in Leon's killing. He pleaded guilty to those cases in 2007 and was sentenced to up to 48 years in prison.

    He was also convicted in a 2014 trial for a rape he committed 20 years prior and was re-sentenced in April to 22 years in prison.

    Bryan is serving his time at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution.

    http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...nt_hear_c.html
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