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    Christopher Anthony Floyd - Alabama Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Floyd was convicted and sentenced to die in 2006 for shooting to death convenience store worker Archie Waylon Crawford in 1992.

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    Appeals court upholds three death sentences

    An Alabama appeals court on Friday upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Aundra Marshall, accused of killing a husband and wife in Bessemer because of an unpaid drug debt.

    Court records show the victims, Clarence Kile, 48, and his wife, Allison Kile, 39, were beaten, bound and then burned to death in the trunk of their car on Feb. 6, 2004.

    Prosecutors at Marshall's trial said the victims were killed after Clarence Kile failed to pay a drug debt.

    The appeals court rejected Marshall's argument that the judge should not have allowed the state to present evidence that Kile had filed a police report against Marshall.

    The appeals court also upheld the death sentences of Christopher Anthony Floyd of Houston County and Joseph B. Hooks of Montgomery.

    Hooks, 56, was convicted in the 1984 killing and robbery of Donald and Hannelore Bergquist.

    Hooks argued his rights were violated when 3 potential jurors didn't answer questions about whether they were related to law enforcement officers.

    Floyd, 36, was convicted in the 1992 killing of Waylon Crawford, who was shot to death during a robbery of a small store he and his wife ran.

    Floyd argued that jurors should not have been allowed to hear statements he made to police. He said the statements were made while he was "under considerable mental anguish."

    In another capital murder case, the appellate judges upheld the conviction of Sharp, 31, for the January 1999 beating death and rape of Tracy Lynn Morris in Madison County. But the appeals court ordered the lower court to rewrite the sentencing order and make specific findings about each aggravating circumstance that caused them to recommend the death sentence.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Alabama Supreme Court reverses death sentence for fatal shooting during Ashford store robbery

    The Alabama Supreme Court has asked two lower courts to reexamine their decisions upholding the death sentence of Christopher Anthony Floyd for the 1992 robbery and shooting of a worker at an Ashford store.

    The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upholding the capital murder conviction and death sentence of the 40-year-old Floyd.

    Floyd was sentenced to die for the 1992 robbery and shooting death of Waylon Crawford during a robbery at a small store he and his wife ran in Houston County. Floyd was 19 at the time of the shooting.

    The Supreme Court asked the Court of Criminal Appeals and the trial judge in Houston County to reconsider whether prosecutors had adequate reasons for eliminating black people and women from the jury.

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    On November 8, 2013, Floyd's death sentence was affirmed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on remand.

    http://statecasefiles.justia.com/doc...?ts=1384279321

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    Alabama Supreme Court refuses to toss capital murder conviction

    The Alabama Supreme Court is upholding the conviction of a man on death row for a slaying in Houston County.

    A decision released Friday rejects Christopher Anthony Floyd's arguments seeking a new trial in the killing of Waylon Crawford.

    Crawford was shot to death during a robbery at a convenience store in Ashford in 1992, but Floyd wasn't put on trial until 2005. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die.

    The Supreme Court is upholding a lower court ruling that says prosecutors properly explained their reasons from excluding some potential jurors from serving.

    The justices also upheld a decision to bar jurors from hearing some statements Floyd made to police. Floyd initially denied killing Crawford before he confessed, and he wanted jurors to hear both versions.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment against Floyd, and remanded his case to the Supreme Court of Alabama for further consideration in light of Foster v. Chatman, 578 U. S. ____ (2016).

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Alabama
    Case Nos.: (1130527)
    Decision Date: May 29, 2015
    Rehearing Denied: August 21, 2015

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/15-7553.htm

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    Exclusion of black jurors could impact 1992 Ashford murder case

    By Lance Griffin
    The Dothan Eagle

    The 2005 capital murder conviction of a local man in the 1992 Waller Store slaying will get another look from the Alabama Supreme Court after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that his appeal should be reconsidered because blacks were excluded from the jury.

    The convicted killer, Christopher Floyd, and victim, Waylon Crawford, are white.

    However, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that minorities can’t be excluded from the jury based on race alone, regardless of the races involved in the case.

    Floyd was sentenced to die in 2005 for the 1992 robbery and shooting death of Crawford during a robbery at a small store he and his wife ran in Ashford. Floyd was 19 at the time of the shooting.

    Floyd appealed his conviction on several grounds, including a claim that blacks and females were purposely excluded from the jury. Floyd claimed on appeal that the prosecution used more than half of its peremptory strikes to exclude 10 of the 11 remaining African-Americans from the jury pool. Local prosecutors claimed legitimate reasons for striking the jurors, ranging from prior criminal convictions to personal opposition to the death penalty to simply being non-responsive during screening questions from the prosecutors.

    In 2012, the Alabama Supreme Court sent the case back to the local level, asking the presiding judge to document specific findings of fact as to whether the prosecution properly struck jurors in the case.

    The Alabama Supreme Court then upheld the conviction.

    The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled Monday that the Alabama Supreme Court must take a second look at the case in light of a recent ruling in a Georgia case titled Foster v. Chatman. In the Foster case, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an 18-year-old black male, was convicted of killing Queen White, a white woman, in Floyd County in 1986. The defense appealed, claiming blacks were kept off the jury based solely on race. Prosecution records indicated the first five names on the “definite Nos” list for the jury were all black. The court determined that traits identified by the prosecution to exclude black prospective jurors were shared by white jurors who were allowed to serve.

    The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-2 to send Floyd’s case back to the Alabama Supreme Court. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas argued in dissent that the decision overstepped the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisdiction.

    Dothan attorney Eric Davis filed the Floyd appeal.

    “The U.S. Supreme Court decision gives a little validation to what we were trying to say all along,” Davis said.

    http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/crim...91742c754.html

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    Alabama Supreme Court: Prosecutor didn't discriminate in jury picks in death penalty case

    The Alabama Supreme Court today for a second time has upheld the conviction and sentence of a death row inmate who says prosecutors struck 10 of 11 blacks from the jury pool at his trial.

    The decision came despite the U.S. Supreme Court's order telling the Alabama court this summer to take another look at the case of death row inmate Christopher Anthony Floyd in light of a similar case in Georgia – Foster v. Chatman. In that case SCOTUS reversed a conviction for discriminatory jury selection.

    "Having considered both the briefs and Foster, this court concludes that Foster does not require a change in the outcome of this case, and we reinstate our judgment in Ex parte Floyd II," the Alabama Supreme Court stated in today's order.

    On July 22 the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Alabama Supreme Court's judgment in the Floyd case and remanded it back for further consideration in light of SCOTUS's decision in May that reversed the Georgia courts' rulings in Foster v. Chatman that upheld prosecutors' striking blacks from the jury pool.

    In 2005 Floyd was convicted in Houston County for the murder and robbery of Waylon Crawford. Floyd was sentenced to death.

    In selecting the jury for Floyd's case, the prosecutor and Floyd's lawyers exercised a total of 36 peremptory challenges, according to the Alabama supreme Court order. Prosecutors used its 18 challenges to remove 10 of 11 African-American venire members and 12 of 18 female venire members. Floyd's counsel removed one African-American and seven female venire members. The jury consisted of six white male jurors, six white female jurors, two alternate white male jurors and one alternate African-American female juror.

    Floyd, who is white, did not object to the jury based on Batson v. Kentucky, a previous U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting racial discrimination in jury selection, the Alabama Supreme Court noted in its order.

    The case has bounced back and forth between the state appellate courts before making it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    On appeal the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals at first ordered the trial judge to conduct a hearing to determine whether the jury strikes were discriminatory. The Houston County prosecutor gave an explanation for each of the jury strikes and the trial judge upheld Floyd's sentence. The Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals then affirmed the judge's ruling.

    "Floyd maintains that the reasons offered by the prosecutor for his strikes of African-Americans and females do not adequately rebut the inference of actual, purposeful discrimination because, he says, those reasons are pretextual or sham," according to today's Alabama Supreme Court order.

    The Alabama Supreme Court then sent the case back with orders that the trial judge "make necessary findings of fact and conclusions of law on the following issues: whether the state's (prosecutor's) offered reasons for striking the African-American jurors it struck were race neutral; whether the state's offered reasons for striking the female jurors it struck were gender neutral; and whether the defendant has carried his burden of proving purposeful discrimination."

    Again the trial judge upheld the sentence and said the prosecutor had demonstrated he had not engaged in "actual, purposeful discrimination on the basis of race or gender during the jury-selection."

    The Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals again affirmed the sentence and conviction and then the Alabama Supreme Court upheld that opinion.

    Floyd appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in July vacated the Alabama Supreme Court decision and ordered the Alabama Supreme Court to re-consider its ruling in light of the Georgia case.

    In its order, the Alabama Supreme Court admitted that in both the Georgia and Alabama cases prosecutors had lists indicating the race of each potential juror.

    "This Court considered the marked list in our previous review and has reconsidered the entire jury-selection process, including this fact, and we simply cannot conclude, even though the record does contain a list used by the prosecutor indicating the race of each potential juror, that the record in this case evidences a "concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury."

    http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in..._says_pro.html
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    State court re-affirms 1992 Waller Store murder conviction

    By Lance Griffin
    The Dothan Eagle

    The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed, again, the murder conviction of a local man after a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling forced another review.

    The court, by a vote of 4-2 with two abstentions, upheld the conviction of Christopher Anthony Floyd, convicted in 2005 of the 1992 murder of Waylon Crawford in what became known as the Waller Store murder in Ashford. Floyd was 19 at the time of the shooting.

    Although both defendant and victim are white, a recent Supreme Court ruling concluded minorities can’t be excluded from a jury on race alone, regardless of the races involved in the case.

    Floyd appealed his conviction on several grounds, including a claim that blacks and females were purposely excluded from the jury. Floyd claimed on appeal that the prosecution used more than half of its peremptory strikes to exclude 10 of the 11 remaining African-Americans from the jury pool. Local prosecutors claimed legitimate reasons for striking the jurors, ranging from prior criminal convictions to personal opposition to the death penalty to simply being non-responsive during screening questions from the prosecutors.

    Local prosecutors were asked to provide non-race reasons for exclusion on the record. On review, the court stated that while there are similarities in the local case and the U.S. Supreme Court case that prompted the court to take another look, it could not determine clear intent on the part of the prosecution to exclude for race alone.

    “We simply cannot conclude … that the record in this case evidences a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury,” the court wrote in its ruling.

    The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Alabama Supreme Court to review the case in June in light of a recent ruling in a Georgia case titled Foster v. Chatman. In the Foster case, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an 18-year-old black male, was convicted of killing Queen White, a white woman, in Floyd County in 1986. The defense appealed, claiming blacks were kept off the jury based solely on race. Prosecution records indicated the first five names on the “definite Nos” list for the jury were all black. The court determined that traits identified by the prosecution to exclude black prospective jurors were shared by white jurors who were allowed to serve.

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Floyd's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Alabama
    Case Numbers: (1130527)
    Decision Date: November 18, 2016
    Rehearing Denied: January 20, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/16-9304.html

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