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    Sean M. Carter - Ohio Execution - January 22, 2025




    Summary of Offense:

    On September 14, 1997, Carter murdered his 68-year-old adoptive grandmother, Veader Prince, at her home in Farmington Township. Upon his release from jail for theft, Ms. Prince refused to allow Carter to live with her. Cater raped, beat and stabbed Ms. Prince 18 times and also stole her money. DNA testing proved that the sperm, recovered from Ms. Prince's rectum, belonged to Carter.

    On March 19, 2002, Carter filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ohi...2cv00524/14858

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    On October 23, 2008, Carter filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit over the denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...s/ca6/08-4377/

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    No. 08-4377 Carter v. Bradshaw

    In today's Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, the court amended the district court’s judgment and REMANDED the case back to the district court.

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    Killer’s case to high court?

    By CHRISTOPHER BOBBY
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    WARREN - The case of Trumbull County death row inmate Sean Carter could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    ''We're giving it a serious look right now. And while it's under review, we normally stay in close consultation with the local prosecutor in the case,'' said attorney Charles L. Wille, who handles state appellate cases through the federal courts for the Capital Crimes Division of the Ohio Attorney General's Office.

    The federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled on May 26 that Carter's latest appeal should be sent back to district court and action postponed until the 32-year-old convicted murderer's competency is restored.

    In late 2007, Carter was transferred from death row to Oakwood Correctional Facility because of a declining mental condition. Oakwood is a psychiatric prison.

    Carter was convicted on Sept. 14, 1997, of raping and murdering his grandmother.

    Originally, former Federal Judge Peter Economus dismissed prosecutors' filing to have Carter returned to death row. Economus ruled that the action - called a habeas corpus filing - could be re-filed when competency was restored.

    Ohio appealed that decision, which resulted in the recent split decision in which a dissenting opinion more closely favors what the Attorney General's Office experts and Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins believe should happen.

    ''I believe we have the law on our side,'' Watkins said. ''The decision goes against precedent. His appeal can still go forward. But this decision could hold up other cases.''

    Watkin's chief appellate assistant, LuWayne Annos, was more blunt: ''There is no constitutional right to competency during a habeas action. This issue was already litigated in Carter's trial. You must be competent at trial and you must be competent to be executed, but not at this point in the appeals,'' Annos said.

    In the meantime, Carter - who blurted out in front of a jury that he was guilty at the start of his trial and who lunged at Judge W. Wyatt McKay in chambers - remains off death row.

    In making that ruling, Economus wrote, ''(Carter) has been disoriented and unable to comprehend or respond to communications from others. His daily functioning, while previously restricted also has deteriorated with extremely poor personal hygiene and lack of consistent sleep habits due to nightly, persistent screaming and laughing.''

    But Watkins, Annos and the dissenting judge believe that Carter's federal claim can go forward whether he is competent or not since his input and understanding of the proceeding isn't as crucial as it is at trial.

    McKay had Carter undergo psychological testing for competency and sanity before trial. Experts found him competent at that time, including experts hired by defense attorneys.

    Carter was serving time for auto theft in Geauga County Jail before the murder of Veader Prince, 68, who had adopted Carter at age 9. She was found in her Southington home, beaten stabbed and raped. He also stole money when he fled from the house.

    Carter, then 18, confessed to the crime shortly after being arrested by Pennsylvania police authorities.

    He was the seventh of 10 Trumbull County death row inmates sentenced to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated by Ohio. Three of the 10 have since been executed and a fourth death row inmate, Charles Lorraine, is scheduled to be executed in January.

    http://www.tribtoday.com/page/conten...id/557996.html

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    U.S. Supreme Court to decide execution delay case

    The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled correctly when it concluded that federal post-conviction appeals should be delayed for an Ohio man convicted of rape and murder.

    The justices, without comment, agreed today to hear the case, a victory for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. The high court will hear oral arguments next fall.

    The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that Sean Carter, convicted by a Trumbull County jury for the 1997 murder of his adoptive grandmother, suffered from such mental illness that he was not competent to have his appeals heard by the courts.

    Instead, in a 2-1 ruling, the court concluded that no further appeals could be heard until it was determined whether Carter was competent enough to understand the appeals process.

    Carter, who has been held in a state facility for mentally ill prisoners, is suffering from schizophrenia and hallucinations. He faces the death penalty.

    After exhausting his state appeals, new attorneys for Carter filed his federal court appeals, arguing that he did not have an effective lawyer during his trial.

    The federal appeals panel said “only Carter knows critical parts of the factual basis for these claims . . . and that evidence is inaccessible as long as he remains unable to communicate’’ with his new attorneys.

    DeWine, however, said in a statement that he was “pleased that the Supreme Court has decided to hear this important case. Our state courts have mechanisms in place to address a defendant's allegations of incompetency. This decision unnecessarily opens the door to decades of delay and collateral litigation in federal court.’’

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...elay-case.html
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    It seems that Carter is really insane.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case On October 9, 2012.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...les/11-218.htm

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    Supreme Court debates whether competency can hold up federal appeals in death penalty cases

    The Supreme Court is questioning whether federal judges can delay appeals from death row inmates while determining whether an inmate is competent enough to assist in his or her own defense.

    Inmates appealing state death sentences have a right to a lawyer in their federal appeal. But the courts have never said whether inmates have to be competent enough to help their lawyer.

    Lawyers for Arizona death row inmate Ernest Gonzales and Ohio death row inmate Sean Carter say yes, and federal judges should have discretion to hold up proceedings until they’re ready.

    But the federal government and some states argue there should be no delays in cases when the necessary information can be found state trial records, and say there should be a time limit in all other instances.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...945_story.html
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    Court: Judges cannot indefinitely delay appeals

    The Supreme Court says federal judges cannot indefinitely delay a death row inmate's federal appeals to see if the convict can become mentally competent enough to help his lawyer.

    The high court unanimously ruled Tuesday against Arizona death row inmate Ernest Gonzales and Ohio death row inmate Sean Carter.

    Inmates appealing state death sentences to federal court have a right to a lawyer. But the courts never said whether the inmates have to be mentally competent enough to help their lawyers with their federal appeals. Gonzales and Carter wanted the high court to say that federal judges have discretion to hold up proceedings indefinitely until the inmates are ready.

    Justice Clarence Thomas says "at some point, the state must be allowed to defend its judgment of conviction."

    http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/2053176...#axzz2HOn7dWRz
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    Sean Carter v. Terry Tibbals

    In today's opinions, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals VACATED the order of the district court and REMANDED the case for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court's ruling.
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