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    Tamir Hamilton - Nevada Death Row




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    Was sentenced to death for the 2006 rape and killing of 16-year-old Holly Quick, a Sparks teenager. The victim was found dead in her bed by her mother after being raped and stabbed.

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    March 28, 2008

    After several hours of deliberations, a Washoe County jury has decided to give Tamir Hamilton the death penalty, after Hamilton was found guilty of murdering a Sparks teen in September 2006.

    Jury members have heard testimony from both sides since Wednesday. They found Hamilton guilty Tuesday of raping and killing 16-year-old Holly Quick inside her mother's apartment.

    All 12 jurors in the courtroom agreed Friday evening that the death Sentence was the appropriate ruling because of the extreme aggravated nature of the crime. Tamir Hamilton's past crimes also are said to have played a part in the jury's decision.

    Tamir Hamilton's defense teams says that they plan to look into different types of appeals with the court to try and get the sentence changed.

    Earlier this week on Thursday, the jury listened to the 911 call Quick's mother made after she found her daughter's throat slashed.

    Emotions also ran high with Holly's older sister. "The evil that lies in you Tamir Hamilton will not consume our lives. We refuse to let you win," says Jhana Williams.

    Defense witnesses discussed Hamilton's past prison records and his mother's battle with schizophrenia.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    A judge added two consecutive life prison terms and set an execution date on Tuesday for Tamir Hamilton, the man convicted and sentenced to death in March for raping and slashing the throat of a 16-year-old Sparks girl in 2006.

    Washoe District Chief Judge Connie Steinheimer ordered the two life sentences for raping Holly Quick with a deadly weapon run consecutively to the life sentence he received for raping a university student weeks before the Quick killing.

    The three life terms also will run consecutive to his death sentence, the judge said.

    "I command you for imposition of the death penalty," Steinheimer told Hamilton, as he stood in an orange jump suit surrounded by sheriff's deputies and prison guards. "Mr. Hamilton, may God rest your soul."

    She set the week of July 14 for Hamilton's execution, an order that will be set aside during the automatic appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    Family reaction

    Mike Glenn, Quick's uncle, said the family was satisfied justice was served.

    "But even if they execute him, there will never be closure," Glenn said. "Nothing's going to fix it."

    Deputy District Attorney Luke Prengaman said he was pleased with the judge's decision to run all of the counts back-to-back.

    "The sentence today was just," he said.

    Hamilton, a friend of Quick's family, went to her house one night in September 2006 when her mother, Patricia Doss, was out on an errand. Doss returned and went to bed, not knowing Hamilton was there. He raped Quick, cut her throat and left. Doss found her daughter dead in her bed the next morning.

    Other sentence

    While awaiting trial on the Quick murder, Hamilton was convicted and sentenced to life with parole possible after 10 years for raping a University of Nevada, Reno student weeks before Quick was killed.

    That rape had remained unsolved until he was arrested for murder and his DNA matched the unsolved crime.

    In March, a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death after confirming four aggravating factors: he had two previous felony convictions involving violence, he tortured or mutilated the victim and he killed her during a sexual assault.

    His lawyers argued that he was a diagnosed schizophrenic -- his mother was institutionalized with schizophrenia -- and he suffered a traumatic childhood in the violent streets of East Los Angeles.

    But the jury dismissed those mitigating factors and ordered the death sentence.

    Tuesday's hearing was to formally impose that order and to decide his fate for the rape charge.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Court upholds death penalty in two cases


    The Nevada Supreme Court upheld death penalties Thursday for a man convicted of killing a Las Vegas woman outside a drugstore and another found guilty of raping and killing a Sparks teenager in her bedroom.

    Justices unanimously upheld the conviction of James R. Walker for the killing in Las Vegas of Christine Anziano, 33, in August 2003 but split 4-3 over whether he deserved a new penalty hearing. Besides first-degree murder, Walker also was convicted of five other counts for crimes committed against two other people within 24 hours of Anziano's death, including slitting one man's throat.

    In another ruling Thursday, the court affirmed the death sentence of Tamir Hamilton, convicted of the 2006 rape and killing of 16-year-old Holly Quick. Quick's mother found her body when she went to awaken her for school.

    Both Walker and Hamilton, who are black, argued the trial courts erred by denying their objections to the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges against blacks in their jury pools.

    Walker, in his appeal, also argued the trial judge erroneously limited his attorney's questioning of potential jurors, that he should have been tried separately on the three incidents, and that statements by the prosecutor were improper.

    Chief Justice Ron Parraguirre was joined by Justices James Hardesty, Mark Gibbons, and Kris Pickering in upholding the conviction and death penalty.

    Justices Michael Cherry, Michael Douglas and Nancy Saitta concurred with the conviction, but said Walker deserved a new penalty hearing because of the prosecutor's statements

    Hamilton argued he was improperly denied from pursing an insanity defense when the court wouldn't allow his expert witness to testify about out-of-court comments Hamilton had made, and that executing him would violate his Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment because he is a schizophrenic.

    Justices upheld his conviction and sentence 6-1. In a dissent, Cherry said the prosecutor's reasons for excusing the only two black potential jurors were "pretexts for racial discrimination," and therefore Hamilton deserved a new trial.

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/nevada-supr...-86440702.html

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    Hamilton execution Aug. 16 for killing Sparks teen

    An unemployed Nevada truck driver is scheduled to be executed Aug. 16 for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Sparks girl.

    Washoe County District Judge Connie Steinheimer signed the death warrant Thursday for 32-year-old Tamir Hamilton in the 2008 killing of Holly Quick at the Sparks apartment she shared with her mother.

    His public defender, Maize Pusich, says she intends to file a federal appeal, which means the execution likely will be stayed.

    Hamilton lost an appeal to the state Surpreme Court in March. He argued that the judge was wrong to bar some evidence he claimed showed he was mentally ill. Experts testified during his trial that he was faking it.

    (Source: The Associated Press)
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    Tamir Hamilton, sentenced to death for raping and killing a Sparks teen in 2006, has asked a judge to cancel his Aug. 16 execution date and appoint him a lawyer to help with his appeals.

    Hamilton also filed a petition in Washoe District Court claiming his sentence violated his constitutional rights.

    Washoe District Judge Connie Steinheimer signed a death warrant for Hamilton on July 22 and scheduled his execution. She set a hearing for oral arguments on his request for this morning.

    A jury found Hamilton guilty in 2008 of sexually assaulting and murdering Holly Quick, who was found by
    her mother on her bed with her throat slashed. Hamilton had been a family friend.

    In March, the Nevada Supreme Court affirmed his conviction.

    In his petition, Hamilton challenged capital punishment on several levels.

    First, he said, death sentences are handed out in an "arbitrary and capricious manner" in Nevada and therfore violate his right to due process and equal protection.

    Capital punishment can be sought on any murder case if an aggravating circumstance can be proved, he said, and the list of such circumstances that warrant a death sentence "are so numerous and so vague that they arguably exist in every first-degree murder case."

    He also said death sentences are given disproportionately to racial minorities: 50 percent of Nevada's death row population is minority while only 17 percent of the state's population is minority.

    Hamilton's petition states that his death sentence is invalid because "lethal injection violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments."

    And he said it should be dismissed because his direct appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court was reviewed by justices who were elected to their posts, and therefore are unable to issue impartial orders.

    Besides the death sentence, Hamilton is serving a life term for raping a University of Nevada, Reno student several days before murdering Quick.

    http://www.rgj.com/article/20100804/...0360/1321/news

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    Tamir Hamilton is on death row in Nevada for the rape and brutal murder of my 16-year-old granddaughter, Holly Quick in Sept. 2006. I'm 74. Is there any chance I'll live long enough to see the sentence carried out?

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    So sorry for your loss, Granny.

    Hamilton's case is in the early stages of appeals. At this point he has only filed his direct appeal to the state of Nevada. He still has a long way to go in the appeals process.
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    It's Grampa, and thanks for checking. Looks like the simple answer is "No".
    I have a friend with ties to the Hells Angels. He said for a modest contribution to the family of one of the Nevada inmates, Tamir could have a fatal accident in jail. I was for it, but my more sensible wife said no, so I just went to the gun range, and shot Tamir's picture full of holes, and put it on Holly's grave.

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    My sincere condolences to you and your family, I totally understand your feelings. Unfortunately, I think the scum on death rows are pretty safe from retribution, as opposed to general population.
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