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    Timothy Scott Boyle - Alabama Death Row




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    Timothy Scott Boyle was sentenced to death by lethal injection on March 12, 2010 for the 2005 murder of two-year-old Savannah White. Circuit Judge David Kimberley handed down the sentence. Boyle was convicted of capital murder in November 2009 and the jury recommended the death penalty.

    Savannah White died from a series of blunt-force injuries to her head, testimony revealed during the trial. Savannah’s older sister testified she had seen Boyle slap the two-year-old around and throw her against a bathtub in the family’s Rainbow City home on October 26, 2005.

    “The defendant’s actions in the brutal murder of this helpless child clearly fit within the parameters of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury to exist in this case,” Kimberly said in his judgment.

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    Conviction in 2-year-old's death upheld

    The capital murder conviction of Timothy Scott Boyle in the 2005 death of 2-year-old Savannah White has been upheld by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

    Boyle was convicted in November 2009 and sentenced to death by lethal injection in March 2010 by Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley for murdering Savannah. The jury in the trial, over which Kimberley presided, unanimously recommended the death penalty.

    Kimberley also sentenced Boyle to 10 years in prison for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, evidence of which was found during the murder investigation.

    Boyle's attorneys had sought the appeal on multiple grounds, alleging Boyle was denied his right to a speedy trial; that the drug charge should have been separated from the capital murder charge, raising questions about jury selection; and that testimony and evidence that should have been impermissible were allowed in by Kimberley.

    The Court of Appeals said, “After independently weighing the aggravating circumstance and the mitigating circumstances, this Court is convinced, as was the circuit court, that death is the appropriate punishment for the murder of 2-year-old Savannah.”

    Savannah, the daughter of Boyle's girlfriend, died from a series of blunt-force injuries to her head, according to testimony during the trial.

    Savannah's older sister testified she saw Boyle slap the child around and throw her against a bathtub in the family's Rainbow City home not long before her death on Oct. 27, 2005.

    Other witnesses testified Savannah was afraid of Boyle in the weeks leading up to her death.

    Bruising around Savannah's head was discovered during an autopsy and was consistent with what would occur after repeated open-handed blows to the head during a period of days or weeks.

    “Because of the distribution, those were multiple strikes — I don't know exactly how many — over half of her skull or more,” said forensic pathologist and key witness James Lauridson, who examined Savannah's body after her death. “I cannot imagine how this could have been an accident.”

    Brain swelling resulting from the blows was the official cause of death, Lauridson testified.

    “The defendant's actions in the brutal murder of this helpless child clearly fit within the parameters of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury to exist in this case,” Kimberley said in his judgment.

    http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/...9817?p=2&tc=pg
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    Alabama Supreme Court turns down Boyle's appeal

    By Andy Powell
    The Gadsden Times

    The Alabama Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by Timothy Scott Boyle of his 2009 capital murder conviction in the 2005 death of 2-year-old Savannah White. The ruling exhausts Boyle's direct state appeals, according to Etowah County District Attorney Jimmie Harp.

    Boyle's capital murder conviction was upheld last year by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

    He was convicted in November 2009 and sentenced to death by lethal injection in March 2010 by Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley for murdering the child.

    The jury in the trial, over which Kimberley presided, unanimously recommended the death penalty.

    Kimberley also sentenced Boyle to 10 years in prison for unlawful possession of a controlled substance, evidence of which was found during the murder investigation.

    “From the state's perspective, he's exhausted all his direct appeals,” Harp said.

    The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday issued the ruling denying Boyle's appeal.

    Harp said Boyle could file an appeal claiming ineffective legal counsel, or file an appeal in federal district court.

    “I don't see him being successful if he chooses to do that,” Harp said.

    Savannah, the daughter of Boyle's girlfriend, died from a series of blunt-force injuries to her head, according to testimony during Boyle's trial.

    Savannah's older sister testified she saw Boyle slap the child around and throw her against a bathtub in the family's Rainbow City home not long before her death on Oct. 27, 2005.

    Other witnesses testified Savannah was afraid of Boyle in the weeks leading up to her death.

    Bruising around Savannah's head was discovered during an autopsy and was consistent with what would occur after repeated open-handed blows to the head during a period of days or weeks.

    “Because of the distribution, those were multiple strikes — I don't know exactly how many — over half of her skull or more,” said forensic pathologist and key witness James Lauridson, who examined Savannah's body after her death. “I cannot imagine how this could have been an accident,” he said.

    Brain swelling resulting from the blows was the official cause of death, Lauridson testified.

    “The defendant's actions in the brutal murder of this helpless child clearly fit within the parameters of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury to exist in this case,” Kimberley said in sentencing Boyle to death.

    http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/...bile?p=1&tc=pg

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Boyle's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
    Case Nos.: (CR-09-0822)
    Decision Date: March 29, 2013
    Rehearing Denied: September 27, 2013
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: April 18, 2014
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    Appeals court upholds decision in death penalty case

    By Donna Thornton
    The Gadsden Times

    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld an Etowah County Circuit Court ruling dismissing a death-row inmate’s post-conviction petition.

    Timothy Scott Boyle was convicted and sentenced to die after the 2005 death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter.

    The girl was taken to a Gadsden hospital Oct. 26, 2005, and later died as a result of brain swelling from a blunt force trauma injury to her head. She also was found to have bruises and a cigarette burn.

    At trial, her then-5-year old sister testified that Boyle hit the girl’s head on a car door while putting her in her car seat about a week before her death, and that the night before she went to the hospital, he threw the toddler against the side of the bathtub and held her head underwater several times.

    The sister said Savannah threw up in the bed they shared that night, and the next morning, she could not wake her.

    Evidence at the trial included vomit-stained sheets investigators found at the Rainbow City apartment.

    Boyle’s attorneys sough post-conviction relief claiming he had ineffective counsel during his trial and in the sentencing portion of his trial in 2009.

    In March, Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley dismissed the motion.

    Boyle’s lawyers appealed the decision to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld Kimberley’s decision.

    http://www.gadsdentimes.com/news/201...h-penalty-case

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    On November 29, 2018, Boyle filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/al...cv01966/168426

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    On April 3, 2023, Boyle filed an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci.../ca11/23-11073
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