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    Timothy Alan Dunlap - Ohio Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    On October 6, 1991, Dunlap murdered his girlfriend, Belinda Bolanos, at a river park in Cincinnati. Dunlap took Ms. Bolanos to the park where he told her he had a surprise for her. After blindfolding her, he shot her in the neck and head with a crossbow. He then stole her car, credit card and checks. Next, Dunlap drove to Soda Springs, Idaho, where he robbed a bank, shooting and killing the bank teller, Tonya Crane. Dunlap later confessed to murdering both Ms. Bolanos and Ms. Crane. He received a death sentence in Idaho for the murder of Ms. Crane.

    Dunlap was sentenced to death in Ohio on February 1, 1993.

    For more on Dunlap's Idaho case, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...daho-Death-Row

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    On July 21, 1999, Dunlap filed a habeas petition (regarding his Ohio death sentence) in Federal District Court.

    http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/g...al-Report.aspx

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    Ohio court rejects condemned inmate's request for execution date; also on death row in Idaho

    The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a condemned inmate's request for an execution date and death by either electric chair or injection.

    Timothy Dunlap is under a death sentence in both Idaho and Ohio for separate killings in 1991, and is currently housed on Idaho's death row.

    The Ohio high court without comment denied Dunlap's request Wednesday.

    He asked for the execution date in a handwritten filing in July.

    Lethal injection is the only option for execution in Ohio after the state retired its electric chair in 2001.

    Dunlap was sentenced to die in Ohio for killing his girlfriend in Cincinnati in October 1991, 10 days before he murdered a bank teller in Idaho.

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...-Penalty-Ohio/

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    Death row inmate sues over lack of lunches

    A man who has been sentenced to death in two states is suing the kitchen supervisor of Idaho's maximum security prison because the state no longer serves lunch to inmates on weekends.

    Timothy Dunlap was sentenced to death in 1992 for killing Tonya Crane during a bank robbery in Caribou County. He has also been sentenced to death in Ohio for killing his girlfriend.

    The Idaho State Journal (http://bit.ly/SxHTxs) reports Dunlap filed the lawsuit in federal court last week, contending that he is losing weight and had a heart attack because of the weekend meal schedule.

    Idaho inmates get three meals a day except weekends, when they get a larger breakfast and dinner and a piece of fruit at lunch time. State officials say the daily calorie total remains constant.

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    Lawrence Bittaker (DR in CA) sued the DOC because he was consistently served a "broken cookie" with his meals, which he felt was intentional. He won the suit and was rewarded a small sum of money by the state of CA.

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    The State of Idaho v. Timothy Dunlap... Vice Versa

    Court: Idaho Supreme Court

    Opinion Date: August 27, 2013

    The judgment imposing the death sentence is affirmed. The district court’s summary dismissal of the petition for post-conviction relief is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further post-conviction relief proceedings.
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    Idaho death row inmate gets new hearing

    An inmate who was sentenced to death for killing a bank teller in eastern Idaho will get another chance to argue that he deserves a lesser sentence under a new ruling from the Idaho Supreme Court.

    Timothy Dunlap was sentenced to death for shooting 23-year-old Tonya Crane to death during a Soda Springs bank robbery in 1991. He also has been sentenced to death in Ohio for killing his girlfriend, Belinda Bolanos, with a crossbow just 10 days before Crane's murder.

    Dunlap contends his attorneys didn't adequately investigate mitigating factors, such as his mental illness, during his sentencing hearing. On Tuesday the Idaho Supreme Court issued a ruling rejecting most of his claims but finding that he was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on claims related to his mental health.

    Dunlap has had several hearings on various aspects of his trial and sentence already. He was originally sentenced to death in Idaho in 1992, and in 2005 the Idaho Supreme Court ruled that procedural mistakes made after he entered his plea entitled him to a new sentencing hearing. In 2006, a jury again sentenced him to die.

    In his most recent appeal, Dunlap argued more than a dozen issues and most of those claims were rejected by the Idaho Supreme Court. But Justice Joel Horton, writing for the unanimous court, said in the ruling that there were some issues of material fact that needed closer examination.

    Among them were Dunlap's contention that his attorneys didn't adequately investigate mitigating factors that could have encouraged a jury to give him a lesser sentence. Specifically, Dunlap said the attorneys didn't do enough to investigate his family and background, his mental illness and the connection between his medications and his behavior, and his level of remorse. He also said his attorneys failed to adequately rebut the state's theory that he was simply malingering, not seriously mentally ill.

    Dunlap also cited a civil lawsuit he filed against the state several years ago as proof that the Idaho Attorney General withheld evidence that would have helped him during the sentencing hearing. In that claim, Dunlap noted after he sued Idaho prison officials for refusing to move him out of solitary confinement, the prison officials defended their position by saying he needed the restrictive housing because of his mental illness.

    Dunlap said that the Idaho Attorney General's office represented the prison officials in defending the lawsuit and also represented state prosecutors in his sentencing hearing, and so should have turned over evidence — the prison officials' statements about his mental health — to Dunlap's attorneys before he was sentenced.

    Those claims merited a close look, the high court decided.

    "The evidence in question here is related to Dunlap's mental health, which was the primary focus of the defense at sentencing," Horton wrote. "Although we express no opinion regarding the merits of Dunlap's claims, it is clear that an evidentiary hearing was required to determine whether, taken as a whole, there is a reasonable likelihood that timely disclosure of this evidence would have had a substantial effect on Dunlap's mitigation case, especially with respect to rebutting the state's theory that Dunlap was a malingerer."

    The court ordered that an evidentiary hearing on both matters be held in state court.

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/0...#storylink=cpy
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    On September 13, 2022, Dunlap filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...ts/ca6/22-3776
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