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    John Russell Calhoun - Alabama Death Row


    Tracy Lee Phillips


    John Russell Calhoun


    Summary of Offense:

    On May 8, 1998, Calhoun fatally shot Tracy Lee Phillips in front of his wife, then raped and sodomized her.

    Calhoun was sentenced to death in September 2000.

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    No. 05-9835 *** CAPITAL CASE ***
    Title:
    John Russell Calhoun, Petitioner
    v.
    Alabama
    Docketed: March 21, 2006
    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
    Case Nos.: (CR-00-0002)
    Decision Date: April 29, 2005
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: December 16, 2005

    ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Mar 16 2006 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 20, 2006)
    Apr 26 2006 Order extending time to file response to petition to and including May 22, 2006.
    May 22 2006 Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
    Jun 7 2006 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 22, 2006.
    Jun 28 2006 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 29, 2006.
    Jun 30 2006 Petition DENIED.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/05-9835.htm

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    Appeals court rejects Talladega County man's death penalty appeal

    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday rejected the appeal of Alabama Death Row inmate John Russell Calhoun in the 1998 death and robbery of a Talladega man and the rape of his wife.

    Calhoun had made ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims his appeal. Among Calhoun's arguments was that a circuit judge erred by summarily dismissing his claim that his appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to adequately argue that he should be given a chance to demonstrate he is intellectually disabled.

    The Alabama Court of Criminal, which had heard arguments on the appeal in a special session in October at the Cumberland School of Law, rejected Calhoun's arguments regarding ineffective-assistance-of-counsel.

    Calhoun, 48, alleges he suffers significant sub-average intellectual functioning – a low IQ.

    According to court records:

    Calhoun was convicted of four counts of capital murder in the May 8, 1998 death of Tracy Phillips during the course of a robbery, during the course of a burglary, during the course of a sodomy, and during the course of a rape.

    A judge sentenced Calhoun to death upon a 10 to 2 recommendation by the jury.

    Calhoun was convicted of entering the Talladega home of Tracy Phillips and his wife in Talladega wearing a stocking mask over his face. He then robbed the couple of jewelry, killed Phillips, and raped, sodomized and beat Phillip's wife.

    The wife testified that she knew the man in the mask was Calhoun because he had been to their house and had seen him while she was posting signs in front of their house for a yard sale. That evening a neighbor called to say a man was looking into the windows of their house.

    Before Calhoun got into the house, Phillips' wife testified that she ran upstairs and hid her daughter and one of her daughter's friends in a bedroom and locked the door.

    A person matching Calhoun's description was seen fleeing the murder scene and neighbors saw Calhoun's car near the murder scene. One neighbor telephoned emergency 911 and police issued a "BOLO" (Be on the lookout bulletin) for Calhoun's vehicle.

    The Talladega County Sheriff's Department found Calhoun's vehicle hidden in some bushes where his mother lived. Law enforcement officers eventually found Calhoun hiding under a bed at another home.

    Forensic tests showed that the blood found on Calhoun's discarded clothes was consistent with the wife's blood, DNA tests on semen from the victim was consistent with Calhoun's DNA, and a bite-mark expert testified there was an extremely high probability that the bite mark on the wife's neck matched Calhoun's dental impression and that the bite mark on Calhoun's arm matched the wife's dental impression.

    Calhoun had claimed that, had appellate counsel conducted additional investigation, counsel would have discovered readily available evidence outside the record regarding Calhoun's mental retardation and a history of mental retardation in his family.

    The decision in Calhoun's case was among four appeals by Alabama Death Row inmates upheld by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday.

    The others included: Alfonzo Morris, a Jefferson County man, who was twice convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 beating death of an 85-year-old woman, lost an appeal last week; Nathaniel Woods, the man convicted in the 2004 shooting deaths of three Birmingham police officers; Anthony Lane, who claims he is intellectually disabled and shouldn't be executed for his conviction in the 2009 robbery and shooting death of an Indiana man who was in Birmingham on business.

    http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in..._talladeg.html

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    On June 7, 2018, Calhoun filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/al...cv00874/166552

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    Does anyone know about his head? Just curious. Also never seen any more disgusting DR inmate than that, he raped L.Phillips in front of her husband then killed the husband, raped her again and tried to kill her too, but he was unsuccessfull. He then robbed the house. Meanwhile 2 children of the family were hiding in a cabinet... I always felt for DR inmates but no, not for this one

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    There was a far worse looking fella in Mississippi who tried to take his own life before capture by shooting himself through mouth with a shotgun and managed to survive. Got the hot shot maybe 5-6 years ago...someone hear will remember him.

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    That's the one!!

    2012...my how time flies.

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