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    On April 15, 2015, Morva's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/dis...?ts=1429201099

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    Appeal rejected, convicted killer Morva prepares next appeal

    A notorious Blacksburg killer has lost his latest death penalty appeal.

    But the judicial system is still open to hearing another protest from William Charles Morva before it would be ready to call the process final and give him the lethal injection the jury ordered.

    Declaring “the court is convinced that Morva received a fair trial,” U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski dismissed Morva’s federal appeal April 15.

    Morva, 33, once known as “Barefoot Will” for living part-time in the Jefferson National Forest and also staying with friends in town and frequenting a Blacksburg coffee shop, killed a Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy and a hospital security officer in 2006. He was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to death by a county jury in 2008.

    A judge previously canceled Morva’s first scheduled execution date, in August 2013, to allow time for the appeal step that just concluded in the government’s favor. That stay continues, Urbanski ruled, as Morva climbs the appeal ladder. He’s been on death row for 80 months.

    If he chooses to continue to appeal, through his lawyers he can ask Urbanski to reconsider. If Urbanski declines to change his mind, Morva can then seek relief from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state’s attorneys predict the fourth circuit will place Morva on its fall 2016 calendar, or possibly spring 2016, said Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt.

    If the federal appeals court and U.S. Supreme Court both turn down Morva, state law says he’ll return to Montgomery County Circuit Court for a final hearing within 10 days and receive an execution date within 60 additional days, Pettitt said. Virginia executes prisoners inside a prison near Jarratt in Sussex County, about a 45-minute drive from the prison now holding Morva, Sussex I State Prison.

    Urbanski’s decision recounts the entire case, beginning with Morva in pretrial holding at the Montgomery County Jail in Christiansburg on burglary-related charges. It covers his leaving the jail to get hospital care for a reported injury, his escape from a deputy sheriff guarding him at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery and his murder of unarmed hospital security officer Derrick McFarland minutes later with the deputy’s gun. Morva later killed Cpl. Eric Sutphin of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, who was among the police officers pursuing Morva the next day.

    The words murder, murders or murderer appear 91 times, or nearly an average of once per page, in Urbanski’s decision that dismisses Morva’s appeal at the request of the warden of Sussex I State Prison.

    With that decision on the books, Morva has accumulated multiple state and federal rejections of his appellate claims.

    He has not denied the killings, but differs with the conduct of the judge and his lawyers at his trial and the trial generally. He has lost on arguments that his lawyers did faulty work, including that they failed to fully investigate and present his mental health history; that he was visibly restrained during his trial; and that the judge made errors, including by excluding a potential juror as not impartial because she stated she could not impose the death penalty.

    A forensic psychiatrist testified that he saw evidence of schizotypal personality disorder, which shares features with schizophrenia, in Morva. However, Morva was not undergoing “an extreme mental or emotional disturbance” when he killed the men and the disorder did not impair Morva’s ability to know the law or that killing was a crime, Urbanski said.

    http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/mo...713ad44b5.html

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    On May 14, 2015, Morva filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...ourts/ca4/15-1

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    On March 22, 2016, oral argument will be heard in Morva's appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

    http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/calend...r222016ric.pdf

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    Appeals court hears Virginia death row inmate’s case

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for a Virginia death row inmate says the man convicted of killing two people during an escape was improperly denied an opportunity to present evidence that he would behave if sent to prison for life.

    William Morva’s attorney made that argument Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A ruling is expected in a few weeks.

    Morva was in jail awaiting trial on attempted robbery charges in 2006 when he was taken to a Blacksburg hospital. He overpowered a deputy sheriff there and used the deputy’s pistol to fatally shoot an unarmed security guard. He fatally shot another deputy during a manhunt the next day.

    The jury found that Morva would be dangerous if sent to prison and sentenced him to death.

    http://wtop.com/virginia/2016/03/app...-inmates-case/
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    WILLIAM MORVA v DAVIS ZOOK

    In today's Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, the three-judge panel AFFIRMED the district court's dismissal of Morva's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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    The Fourth Circuit panel was made up of Judges Davis (Obama), Diaz (Obama) and Wynn (Obama).

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    Appellate court denies appeal for killer William Morva

    ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ7) - The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a murderer's request for a rehearing whether to reopen his case.

    William Morva was convicted of killing security guard Derrick McFarland and Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy Eric Sutphin during an escape from jail. He has appealed his death sentence through the state system and now the federal system, arguing he had insufficient counsel during his trial.

    Wednesday, the Court said no judge thinks a full panel hearing is necessary. Morva is on death row at a prison in Waverly, Virginia, although no execution date has been set.

    http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Ap...381597911.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Morva's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (15-1)
    Decision Date: May 5, 2016
    Rehearing Denied: June 1, 2016

    Appeals exhausted. Ruling could result in execution date.
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    Supreme Court rejects appeal from Virginia death row inmate

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Virginia death row inmate who killed two people during an escape in 2006.

    William Morva argued that he should have been allowed to present evidence that he wouldn't pose a risk of future violence if he was spared the death penalty.

    But the justices on Tuesday left in place an appeals court ruling that rejected those claims.

    Morva was in jail awaiting trial on attempted robbery charges in 2006 when he overpowered a deputy sheriff during a trip to the hospital. He used the deputy's pistol to fatally shoot an unarmed security guard and fatally shot another deputy during a manhunt the next day.

    http://www.wral.com/supreme-court-re...mate/16542295/
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