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    Randolph Mansoor Greer - Texas

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    Facts of the Crime:

    Randolph Greer was convicted in the June 1991 murder of Walter Chmiel during the armed robbery of the gun shop Chmiel was working in. Greer walked into the shop and shot Chmiel once in the head with a semi-automatic pistol. As Greer was taking guns from the display racks, a wrecker driver walked into the shop and was forced at gunpoint to help Greer steal weapons. Greer fled the shop after threatening the life of the wrecker driver, who managed to record the license of Greer's vehicle. Police chased Greer's vehicle, but he escaped on foot after being pulled over. Guns from the robbery were found in the car, which police later traced back to a rape victim Greer had kidnapped the day prior to the gun shop robbery.

    Greer was sentenced to death in Harris County in September 1992.

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    On May 18, 2010, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a Certificate of Appealability for Greer.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...0041.0.wpd.pdf

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    May 19, 2010

    Inmate on death row nearly 2 decades loses appeal

    A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a North Carolina man on Texas death row for the fatal shooting of a Houston-area gun shop owner almost 2 decades ago.

    Randolph Greer, who turned 37 last week, was 18 in June 1991 when evidence showed he shot 47-year-old Walter Chmiel during a robbery at the victim's store in the Houston enclave of Bellaire.

    The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected Greer's claims that his Harris County jury was not impartial, that the trial judge improperly denied his motion for a new trial, that his trial lawyers were incompetent and that the punishment instructions to jurors were improper.

    Greer won a court-ordered hearing in 2005 after questioning the handling of his DNA evidence by the troubled Houston Police Department crime lab.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Greer was denied certiorari by the US Supreme Court on October 18, 2010.

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    NO. AP-76,592 EX PARTE RANDOLPH MANSOOR GREER

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned Greer's death sentence and remanded the case to the trial court for a new punishment hearing.

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    As of October 25, 2013, the Harris County District Attorney has the intention of seeking a new death sentence for Greer in 2015.

    http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...es-4927418.php

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    Randolph Greer #999042 is no longer on death row. Mandate received, awaiting new punishment hearing on July 31, 2015.

    http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_ro...ger_on_dr.html

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    Condemned inmate avoids execution with life sentence for Houston crime spree

    By Brian Rogers
    The Houston Chronicle

    A North Carolina man who spent years on Texas' death row awaiting execution was sentenced Monday to four consecutive life sentences, a plea bargain that Harris County prosecutors hope will keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

    Randolph Mansoor Greer, 43, was on death row until 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that meant he and dozens of condemned inmates would get new sentencing hearings because of insufficient jury instructions.

    Those cases, called Penry retrials because of the Supreme Court case, have been winding their way through Houston's courts for years. Some have successfully been retried as death penalty cases, others have gotten plea bargains with elaborately structured pleas to ensure the former death row inmates are never free.

    Since Texas did not have a punishment of life in prison without parole when those crimes were committed, prosecutors and families of victims have worried that even a capital murder conviction in these cases might one day lead to parole.

    The decision to grant parole is made by prison officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under the law at the time of the crime.

    On Monday, Greer was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to capital murder and other crimes he committed during a 1991 spree in the Houston area, according to the Harris County District Attorneys Office.

    "Twenty-six years after committing a murderous crime spree, Mr. Greer has been resentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole," First Assistant Tom Berg said Tuesday. "Greer, now 43, has been incapacitated and will never again pose a threat to public safety."

    Prosecutors said his crime spree spanned six months. In separate incidents, he abducted and sexually assaulted two Houston area women who survived the attacks.

    He also robbed from a business, stole a car, and shot and killed Walter Chmiel, owner of the Alamo gun shop in Bellaire.

    Greer also committed a capital murder in North Carolina as well as sexual assaults, robberies and a home invasion.

    Prior to new sentencing, prosecutors consulted with survivors and the families of victims, Berg said.

    http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...e-11080748.php

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