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Thread: Carlos David Caro - Federal Death Row

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    Carlos David Caro - Federal Death Row

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    A jury in the Western District of Virginia recommended a death sentence for Caro on February 13, 2007 for the murder of his cellmate, Robert Sandoval. Caro was serving a 30-year sentence for drug offenses. Both Caro and Sandoval were reportedly members of a prison gang called the Texas Syndicate. The murder occurred in 2003. A judge formally sentenced Caro to death in District Court on March 30, 2007.

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    March 17, 2010

    Appeals court in Va. affirms fed death sentence

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A divided federal appeals court has upheld the death sentence of an inmate who stole his cellmate's breakfast then strangled him with a bath towel for complaining about it.

    The 2-1 ruling Wednesday by a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a federal jury's decision that Carlos Caro should be put to death for the 2003 slaying of Robert Sandoval at the U.S. penitentiary in Lee County.

    Caro was eligible for the federal death penalty because of previous drug convictions. He raised several issues on appeal, all of which were rejected by the panel majority.

    Judge Roger Gregory wrote in a dissenting opinion that said Caro should be spared the death penalty because his drug offenses were nonviolent.

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    On January 9, 2012, the US Supreme Court DENIED Caro's certiorari petition.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/10-8356.htm

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    On January 8, 2013, Caro filed a habeas (2255) petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/vir...cv80553/88162/

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    On May 4, 2015, Caro's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    http://www.vawd.uscourts.gov/OPINION...55.opinion.pdf

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    On January 7, 2016, Caro filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...ts/ca4/16-6027
    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...ourts/ca4/16-1

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    On April 3, 2017, without hearing oral argument, the Fourth Circuit DENIED Caro's appeal. The panel was made up of Judges Gregory (Clinton/G.W. Bush), Shedd (G.W. Bush) and Duncan (G.W. Bush).

    http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...017-04-03.html

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    On September 14, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Caro's appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

    http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/calend...p122017ric.pdf

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    Court rejects appeal from Virginia death row inmate

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has upheld the death sentence of a Virginia inmate who ate his cellmate’s breakfast then strangled him for complaining.

    In a 2-1 ruling Tuesday, the panel upheld a district court’s denial of Carlos David Caro’s challenge of his death sentence.

    The panel also rejected Caro’s claim that the government violated his rights by withholding data about housing dangerous inmates at the government’s Supermax prison in Colorado. The panel said that claim was procedurally barred after having been previously denied.

    Caro was sentenced to death for the 2003 slaying of Robert Sandoval at the federal penitentiary in Lee County.

    Sandoval was killed four months after Caro and a fellow gang member stabbed another inmate at the Lee County prison 29 times with homemade knives.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.4e7f6c94a966
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    The panel was made up of Judge Duncan (G.W. Bush), Senior Judge Shedd (G.W. Bush) and Judge Gregory (Clinton). Judge Gregory dissented.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...018-05-08.html

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