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    Khalid Ali Pasha - Florida




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    Circuit Judge William Fuente sentenced Khalid Pasha to death for the 2002 slayings of his wife and stepdaughter. It was a dry, half-hour-long hearing where Fuente read from the sentencing report. Ultimately, he sided with jurors, who recommended in late October that Khalid Ali Pasha receive the death penalty. A majority of jurors must recommend the death penalty before a judge can impose the sentence. The jurors in Pasha's case voted 7-5. Had one more juror voted against death, Pasha would not have been eligible.

    At trial, witnesses testified that on August 23, 2002, they were in the parking lot behind Woodland Corporate Center near Waters and North Manhattan avenues. They saw a tall black man walk in and out of the woods, carrying a shiny object and wearing a white jumpsuit covered in blood. While on the phone with a 911 operator, one witness and his wife said they saw the man get into a white van, then drive away as they followed in their pickup.

    Deputies stopped Pasha in his white van as he waited for a red light. In the van, they found a white jumpsuit covered in the blood of the two victims and a bloody knife. Through the woods at the corporate center, deputies came to a cul-de-sac and found the car and bloody bodies of Robin Canady, 43, and her daughter, Ranesha Singleton, 20. More blood was found on Pasha's boots, on his tank top and on latex gloves found in the van. A psychiatrist evaluated Pasha and found him to be cooperative, to a point, but seemed to be hiding something. Fuente said the psychiatrist's report noted that Pasha suffers from paranoia and can become combative when confronted.

    The case took five years to go to trial. Pasha fired four lawyers and tried to represent himself on more than one occasion. Pasha, 64, has spent more than half his life in prison on charges including armed robbery, armed burglary and bank robbery, Harb said. In Indiana, Pasha escaped once from prison and once from a county jail. Twice, he had been sentenced to life in prison. One of those sentences was thrown out on appeal after attorneys proved there was a problem with a police lineup. A second life sentence was reduced to 40 years.

    Pasha was paroled after 20, Harb said. Pasha was on parole when killed his wife and stepdaughter.

    Pasha was sentenced to death in Hillsborough County on May 30, 2008.

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    October 31, 2007

    Double murder goes to jurors

    A trial in the deaths of a new wife and her daughter wraps up.

    Who wore the white jumpsuit?

    On Aug. 23, 2002, a mother and daughter died at the hands of a knife-wielding man in a white hazmat suit. Prosecutors say the suit belonged to Khalid Ali Pasha and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder. His defense attorneys say the state lacks proof.

    Today, a Hillsborough jury will be asked to decide.

    If the jurors convict Pasha, 64, they will next consider whether he deserves the death penalty.

    Jurors heard from more than two dozen witnesses and saw 220 pieces of evidence presented by the state in the seven-day trial.

    The defense offered no testimony. Instead, defense attorney Nick Sinardi poked holes in what he called "a circumstantial evidence case."

    Robin Canady, 43, Pasha's wife of less than a month, and her 20-year-old daughter, Ranesha Singleton, were beaten, stabbed and dragged down a cul-de-sac in the Woodlands Corporate Center on Waters Avenue, west of Dale Mabry Highway.

    A husband and wife told 911 that a man wearing a blood-soaked white jumpsuit and carrying a shiny object had disappeared into nearby woods. Then they saw a man emerge wearing khaki pants and a white T-shirt. He drove off in a van.

    Hillsborough sheriff's deputies stopped Pasha's van at a red light and found inside a bloody knife, bloody boots and a hazmat suit issued to him for his work collecting water samples for an environmental engineering firm.

    Pasha knew of his wife's plans to pick up her daughter from work, Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb said Tuesday. Blood from his clothes and face matched the victims' blood, Harb added.

    Sinardi said no tests proved that Pasha had worn the white jumpsuit at the time of the murders, his prints weren't on the knife, and no one saw the killings.

    http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/31/Hi..._goes_to.shtml

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    Man guilty in slayings of wife, her daughter

    A jury takes less than 90 minutes to decide on a conviction in Khalid Ali Pasha's trial.

    A Hillsborough County jury found Khalid Ali Pasha guilty Wednesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and stepdaughter.

    Shortly after hearing the verdicts, Pasha, 64, refused to participate in today's penalty phase. Jurors must decide whether to recommend that Circuit Judge William Fuente sentence Pasha to death.

    The convictions guarantee he will serve at least a life term without parole. It took jurors less than 90 minutes to decide Pasha's guilt.

    "I would rather just leave it alone and let it stand as it is," Pasha told the judge.

    He asked that his defense attorney call no witnesses today to testify on his behalf. In fact, Pasha said, he didn't want to be in the courtroom when prosecutors made their arguments.

    "What you're doing now, Mr. Pasha, is tantamount to suicide," defense attorney Robert Fraser said, as he pleaded with Pasha to reconsider. "Do you understand you are committing suicide?"

    With a therapist standing by to evaluate Pasha's mental ability to understand his decision and its impact, the defense team persuaded him to change his mind.

    Prosecutors accused Pasha at trial of killing his new wife and her adult daughter on Aug. 23, 2002. Investigators found Robin Canady, 43, and Ranesha Singleton, 20, stabbed to death in a cul-de-sac in the Woodlands Corporate Center on Waters Avenue, west of Dale Mabry Highway.

    Witnesses saw a man wearing a bloody white hazmat suit walking into the woods, then saw a man walk out in only a T-shirt and pants. But investigators said they found the hazmat suit in Pasha's van and the victims' blood on his other clothes.

    "These women died for reasons we'll never know, and this simply isn't a death case," Fraser said, as he outlined for the judge what he plans to present today.

    Several relatives, including Pasha's first and second wives and a cousin, will testify for the defense. Fraser also plans to call as witnesses an imam and a jail deputy who will talk about Pasha's positive influence on inmates and how he taught them about Islam.

    A therapist who treated Pasha and diagnosed him with paranoia also may testify.

    Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb will limit the prosecution's presentation mostly to evidence that jurors heard during trial. He may ask a different therapist to testify as well as the teller at a bank that Pasha was convicted of robbing.

    http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/01/Hi..._slaying.shtml

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    May 30, 2008

    Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Wife, Stepdaughter

    Circuit Judge William Fuente this morning sentenced a man to death for the 2002 slayings of the man's wife and stepdaughter.

    It was a dry, half-hour-long hearing where Fuente read from the sentencing report. Ultimately, he sided with jurors, who recommended in late October that Khalid Ali Pasha receive the death penalty.

    A majority of jurors must recommend the death penalty before a judge can impose the sentence. The jurors in Pasha's case voted 7-5. Had one more juror voted against death, Pasha would not have been eligible.

    At trial, witnesses testified that on Aug. 23, 2002, they were in the parking lot behind Woodland Corporate Center near Waters and North Manhattan avenues. They saw a tall black man walk in and out of the woods, carrying a shiny object and wearing a white jumpsuit covered in blood.

    While on the phone with a 911 operator, one witness and his wife said they saw the man get into a white van, then drive away as they followed in their pickup.

    Deputies stopped Pasha in his white van as he waited for a red light. In the van, they found a white jumpsuit covered in the blood of the two victims and a bloody knife. Through the woods at the corporate center, deputies came to a cul-de-sac and found the car and bloody bodies of Robin Canady, 43, and her daughter, Ranesha Singleton, 20.

    More blood was found on Pasha's boots, on his tank top and on latex gloves found in the van.

    Today, Fuente said he received word from several acquaintances, relatives and co-workers of Pasha who described him as calm, courteous, religious and a good worker.

    A psychiatrist evaluated Pasha and found him to be cooperative, to a point, but seemed to be hiding something. Fuente said the psychiatrist's report noted that Pasha suffers from paranoia and can become combative when confronted.

    The case took five years to go to trial. Pasha fired four lawyers and tried to represent himself on more than one occasion.

    "We all lose in these things," Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb said after Fuente passed sentence. "This is an old man who has lived a life of crime."

    Pasha, 64, has spent more than half his life in prison on charges including armed robbery, armed burglary and bank robbery, Harb said.

    In Indiana, Pasha escaped once from prison and once from a county jail. Twice, he had been sentenced to life in prison. One of those sentences was thrown out on appeal after attorneys proved there was a problem with a police lineup. A second life sentence was reduced to 40 years. Pasha was paroled after 20, Harb said.

    Pasha was on parole when killed his wife and stepdaughter.

    Bob Fraser, one of Pasha's attorneys, said despite Pasha's age and the length of time that usually passes before execution, Pasha is likely to live long enough for the sentence to be carried out.

    "He's pretty healthy," Fraser said. "He's a very, very strong person."

    http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may...-stepdaughter/

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    The Florida Supreme Court overturned the conviction and death sentence for Pasha in today's orders/opinions.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/d.../sc08-1129.pdf

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    Court overturns death sentences in Tampa double slaying

    The Florida Supreme Court today overturned the double death sentences imposed on a Tampa man in the slayings of his wife and stepdaughter.

    A unanimous court vacated the two murder convictions of Khalid Ali Pasha, 66, and sent the case back the Hillsborough County Circuit Court.

    The justices said Hillsborough Circuit Judge William Fuente should have let Pasha fire his court-appointed attorney and represent himself.

    Jurors convicted Pasha of the August 23, 2002, stabbing deaths of Robin Canady, 43, and her daughter Ranesha Singleton, 20.

    "Pasha clearly expressed a desire to proceed pro se (represent himself) in order to avoid the proceedings with counsel he found to be unacceptable," the high court wrote in its 8-page ruling. "This error of the trial court requires reversal."

    Pasha tried to fire his lawyer, Nick Sinardi, a week before his October 2007 trial, saying they disagreed over strategy. Fuente denied the request after a hearing, deciding Pasha was getting adequate representation.

    Pasha then said he wanted to be his own attorney.

    On the morning jury selection was to begin, Fuente held another hearing on the request.

    During the hearing, Pasha said he would prefer to have a lawyer but that he didn't have that choice because Fuente wouldn't replace Sinardi.

    Fuente denied Pasha's request to represent himself.

    At the trial, witnesses testified they were parked behind the Woodland Corporate Center near Waters and Manhattan avenues when they saw a man carrying a shiny object and wearing a white jumpsuit covered in blood.

    In a 911 call, they said they saw the man drive away in a white van. The witnesses followed the van in their pickup truck.

    Deputies said they stopped Pasha in his van at a red light and found a blood-soaked jumpsuit and a bloody knife.

    The bodies of Canady and Singleton were found in woods near the corporate center.

    (Source: The Tampa Tribune)

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    Totally irrelevant to Pasha's case, but I went to school with Todd Schnitt from elementary to high school.

    Hillsborough County Court braces for crush of potential jurors Monday

    Round up extra folding chairs and order more pickles for Cuban sandwiches at the courthouse snack bar. Chairs, pickles and patience could be in short supply Monday when almost a thousand people are expected for jury duty.

    Three major trials starting at the same time have caused the jury services office to mail out 3,300 jury summonses, about 1,000 more than usual. Because only a quarter of those who receive summonses actually show up, the Hillsborough County Courthouse expects to play host to about 900.

    It's not a record, said Lisa Mann, director of jury services, but it's a lot. All three of the big trials are expected to be lengthy ones.

    The most publicized is a defamation lawsuit brought by Tampa radio personality Todd "MJ" Schnitt against his old morning-show rival, Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.

    Hillsborough Circuit Judge James Arnold has requested a pool of 80 jurors for that trial, which is expected to last three weeks.

    There's also a civil trial involving the family of deceased Jacqueline Loyd, which is suing the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., alleging that cigarettes caused her death.

    That trial, before Hillsborough Circuit Judge Bernard Silver, also is predicted to last three weeks. He has asked for a pool of 150 jurors.

    On the criminal side, a notorious 2002 murder case, which had resulted in a death penalty conviction, is being retried by Hillsborough Circuit Judge Kimberly Fernandez.

    The case involves Khalid Pasha, accused of killing Robin Canady, his wife of less than one month, and her daughter, Ranesha Singleton.

    In 2007, Pasha was sentenced to death for those murders, but the Florida Supreme Court ordered a new trial because the original trial judge had not allowed Pasha to dismiss his lawyer and defend himself.

    Pasha, now 69, will represent himself this time. Judge Fernandez has asked for a pool of 200 jurors.

    Jury services director Mann said the reporting schedule for prospective jurors has been staggered so they won't pile up in the hallways.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...monday/1270430
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    Man defending himself in death penalty trial takes the witness stand

    There is a huge reason many defendants choose not to testify at their trials:

    Cross-examination.

    But Khalid Pasha, 69, is not like many defendants. Facing the death penalty, he opted not for an attorney specially qualified to handle capital cases. Instead, he chose himself.

    And facing physical evidence that he murdered his wife and her daughter, he told a story that placed him at the murder scene with them alive, then happening upon their bodies, then driving away without telling anybody.

    Robin Canady, 43, and Ranesha Singleton, 20, were found dead the night of Aug. 23, 2002, their throats slit, in the most remote corner of the complex where they worked, the Woodland Corporate Center on Waters Avenue.

    Deputies stopped Pasha as he was leaving the complex. They found fresh blood on his face and clothes and on a knife inside his van.

    On Thursday, he told jurors his wife called him to the complex that night. He was with her and her stepdaughter in her car, but they were separated at one point. And the next time he saw them, they were dead.

    The blood on his suit? He cradled one of the bodies — the innocent act of a man who had just lost his family. Earlier, he said he had killed a rabbit.

    The knife in the van? He'd never seen it. Except that he later said it was from his yard. But he didn't put blood on it.

    Why didn't he call for help on one of his two cellphones?

    Why didn't he tell deputies?

    "I'm not from Florida," he said. "I know people down here are friendly. Where I'm from … Indiana … you don't communicate with people you don't know."

    Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb questioned Pasha like a prosecutor might in a movie — ardent, accusatory:

    "Isn't it true, Mr. Pasha, that was the guilty conscience in you, sir?"

    "You're very unlucky. Isn't that what you think you are?"

    "You killed these two ladies. The question is why?"

    But Pasha insisted he was telling the truth.

    The jury reconvenes this morning.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...-stand/1272134
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    Khalid Pasha found guilty after representing himself in death penalty murder trial

    Self-representation did not pay off for Khalid Pasha, who chose to defend himself against two first-degree murder charges in a death penalty trial.

    On Friday, it took a jury less than an hour to find him guilty.

    They had seen the state's evidence — the blood of his 43-year-old wife Robin Canady and her 20-year-old daughter Ranesha Singleton on his face and clothes and a knife inside his van.

    They had also heard his version, which placed him at the murder scene, discovering their bodies in a remote cul-de-sac at the Woodland Corporate Center on Waters Avenue, then driving away with no plan to tell anyone.

    The verdict did not appear to surprise Pasha, 69. He scanned the jury without emotion.

    No one met his gaze.

    The jury was the second to find him guilty of the August 23, 2002 murders.

    He stood trial in 2007 and was sentenced to death, but the Florida Supreme Court later reversed the convictions.

    At issue was Pasha's desire to represent himself. He was denied the ability then, and the Supreme Court ruled it was his right.

    This verdict came 35 minutes quicker than the last.

    Jurors will reassemble on February 11 for the penalty phase of the trial, to hear an expected three days worth of evidence and decide whether to recommend that Pasha be put to death.

    Something will be different in round two, Pasha has decided:

    He will be represented by a death-qualified private attorney.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...-found/1272222
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    Jury recommends death sentence for Pasha in 2002 murders

    A jury this morning recommended today that Khalid Ali Pasha should be executed for stabbing and bludgeoning his wife and stepdaughter to death in 2002.

    Jurors voted 11-1 for the death penalty after deliberating for about 80 minutes.

    Pasha, 69, was found guilty during a retrial last month of killing Robin Canaday, 43, and her daughter, Ranesha Singleton, 20.

    The Florida Supreme Court in 2010 overturned Pasha’s 2007 convictions in the case. The high court said Pasha should have been allowed to serve as his own attorney at his original trial.

    Pasha represented himself at his retrial. For the sentencing phase of the second trial, Pasha obtained a lawyer, J. Jervis Wise, who urged jurors in closing arguments Monday not to recommend a death sentence.

    “What good comes from killing this man?” Wise asked jurors. The defense lawyer noted that one way or another, Pasha, 69, will die in prison. The only determination for the jury, he said, is whether Pasha will die of natural causes or by lethal injection.

    The prosecutor, Jalal Harb, told jurors Pasha has to be held accountable for the brutal murders, which he said meet the legal definition of cold, calculated and premeditated, as well as heinous, atrocious and cruel.

    Harb also argued that jurors should find the existence of other aggravating factors – that Pasha was on parole for a 1970 bank robbery at the time of the killings and that he had committed prior felonies, two bank robberies.

    Harb said the murders were especially “wicked” because the mother and daughter saw each other being beaten and stabbed to death.

    Wise said the murders were not calculated. “This was done in a frenzy,” the defense lawyer said. “There was not anything planned out. Something snapped.”

    Wise said that while “there was some suffering” on the part of the victims, there was no more than in most other murders. “They, fortunately, did die within a relatively short period of time.”

    Wise also urged jurors to find some good in Pasha, who faced severe corporal punishment as a child and lost two mother figures when he was very young. Pasha, the lawyer said, grew up facing the indignity of racial segregation in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. This, Wise said, was “a major contributing factor” to the murders.

    Wise said a death sentence won’t protect society from Pasha because whatever the jury decides, Pasha is “never getting out. He’s dying in prison one way or the other.”

    A majority of jurors had to recommend the death penalty before a judge can impose the sentence. The jurors in Pasha’s last trial voted 7-5. Had one more juror voted against death, Pasha would not have been eligible for execution.

    http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-ne...rde-ar-631994/

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