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    Craigen Lewis Armstrong - California




    Summary of Offense:

    On September 27, 2001, Christopher Florence, a 21-year-old Neiman Marcus receiving clerk, made a wrong turn down a one-way street. A man at the end of the block, mistaking him for a rival gang member, aimed a nine-millimeter handgun at him and pulled the trigger. In the days that followed, two more of Florence's sons were killed Michael Florence, 27, and Torry Florence, 29. Inglewood gang member Craigen Armstrong was sentenced to death for the slayings of all three brothers.

    Armstrong was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on January 5, 2005.

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    The prosecution filed a response to Armstrong's initial brief on December 20, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S130659

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    Armstrong's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since January 26, 2015.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S130659

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    On June 1, 2016, oral argument will be heard in Armstrong's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/SJUN116A.pdf

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    Courts overturn sentences for two California death row inmates and uphold another

    Also Thursday, the California Supreme Court in a unanimous decision overturned the conviction and death sentence of Craigen Lewis Armstrong, finding that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Pounders discharged a juror during the guilt phase of Armstrong’s trial without demonstrable reason to believe that the juror could not complete her duty.

    Armstrong was originally convicted in 2004 of killing three brothers in 2001.

    “It doesn’t mean the person is not guilty, but they have legitimate arguments for why their convictions should not stand,” said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson.

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/

    Craigen Lewis Armstrong's retrial will be on August 9th, 2021, and the prosecution won't seek the death penalty against him.

    https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justic...ally-ill-peers
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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