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    Marcus Dorwin Adams - California Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 murders of Lamar Armstrong, Dayland Hicks and Trevon Boyd. On September 7, 1994, three friends sat in a white, two-door car near the corner of 47th Street and Western Avenue. A fourth leaned against the car, talking through an open window. Adams walked up to the vehicle and shot the three young men in the car multiple times. Hicks, 22, started the car and tried to duck but died before he could drive off. Boyd, 20, managed to get out of the car and make it into a nearby store. He died behind a potato chip rack. Armstrong, 19, stayed alive long enough to make it to the hospital. Before doctors could get him to surgery, he died.

    Adams was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on August 4, 2003.

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    Additional information about this case.

    http://articles.latimes.com/2003/may...cal/me-death21

    -- Adams robbed a bank a few weeks after the triple homicide which netted him $161,000.
    -- He pistol-whipped a victim and carjacked three people.
    -- He was going to be tried for orchestrating a robbery-homicide that would eventually lead to Adams's arrest in the triple homicide.

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    Adams' case has been fully briefed on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court since July 1, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S118045

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    Oral argument on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court is scheduled for September 3, 2014.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S118045

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    On October 30, 2014, the California Supreme Court affirmed Adams' death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S118045

    On January 27, 2015, Adams filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...1TICAgCg%3D%3D

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