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    Todd Jesse Garton - California Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Claiming he was a CIA assassin and an IRA operative, Garton hired a friend to kill his wife, who was pregnant with their nearly full-term fetus.

    Sentenced to death in Shasta County on April 27, 2001 for the May 16, 1998 murder-for-hire of his wife Carole Garton and her eight-month-old fetus. Norman Daniels III shot the 28-year-old woman five times at point-blank range inside her tiny Cottonwood home, later sending a pager message to Garton notifying him of the successful hit. One of the bullets went right through the fetus.

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    Attorneys for Garton filed opening briefs on direct appeal to the California Supreme Court on July 10, 2012.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...9RMCAgCg%3D%3D
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    Garton's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since May 20, 2015.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...9RMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    On December 6, 2017, oral argument will be heard before the California Supreme Court in Garton's direct appeal.

    http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/SDEC617.pdf

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    On January 18, 2018, Garton filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...pSICAgCg%3D%3D

    In today's opinions, the California Supreme Court AFFIRMED Garton's death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S097558.PDF

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    State Supreme Court upholds Shasta County death penalty case

    By Jim Schultz
    The Redding Record-Searchlight

    The California Supreme Court upheld Monday the death penalty sentence of a Cottonwood man convicted in 2001 of murder in the 1998 murder-for-hire shooting death of his pregnant wife.

    Todd Garton, 48, has been on death row in San Quentin Prison since May 2001 following his murder conviction in the death of his wife, Carole, and their unborn baby.

    The 2-to-1 ruling was made on an automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court.

    In one of the strangest murder cases in Shasta County history, officials said Garton was able to convince his lover, Lynn Noyes, and fellow Cottonwood residents, Dale Gordon and Norman Daniels III, that he was a former Irish Republican Army member, CIA agent and a Marine sniper who worked for an international company of covert hit men.

    After a botched attempt to kill Noyes' husband in Oregon, Garton was able to convince Daniels that orders from his superiors demanded he kill Garton's wife in the hopes of cashing in on insurance money, prosecutors have said.

    Garton told the would-be assassin that Daniels and his family would be killed if he didn't follow through with the murder plot.

    Daniels shot the 28-year-old woman five times at point-blank range inside her tiny Cottonwood home, later sending a pager message to Garton notifying him of the successful hit.

    One of the bullets went right through the fetus.

    At trial, prosecutors have said, Garton lied so much he even started to believe his own bogus stories, noting he started answering questions on the witness stand in a phony Irish brogue.

    It took jurors an hour and 10 minutes to come back with a death sentence.

    Daniels, the man who killed Carole Garton, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.

    Noyes, Garton's longtime lover, was sentenced to a 25-year-to-life prison term for her part in the murder plot and the unsuccessful conspiracy to kill her husband, Dean Noyes.

    Gordon was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in the Noyes conspiracy. However, the court overturned Garton's conviction on the charges he conspired to attempt to kill Noyes' husband, Dean Noyes.

    https://www.redding.com/story/news/l...ase/394834002/

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Garton's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California
    Case Numbers: (S097558)
    Decision Date: March 5, 2018
    Rehearing Denied: May 16, 2018

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/18-5660.html

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