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    Taurus Jermaine Carroll - Alabama Death Row




    Convicted killer who barely escaped a death sentence years ago not so lucky today


    ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Alabama - A convicted killer who narrowly escaped a death sentence more than a decade ago wasn't so fortunate today.

    A St. Clair County judge sentenced 35-year-old Taurus Jermaine Carroll, of Birmingham, to death in the 2009 slaying of a fellow inmate in a dispute over prison contraband. Authorities say Carroll fatally stabbed Michael Turner in the back with a prison-made knife. The attack happened because Carroll erroneously suspected that Turner stole his cell phone, according to a press release issued by St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor. Cell phones are prohibited in prison.

    The assault happened in September of 2009. Authorities said Turner ran from Carroll, but Carroll chased him into an individual cell where he repeatedly stabbed Turner in the head and body. Turner later died in a prison infirmary.

    Turner was unarmed, Minor said, and investigators learned another inmate had stolen the cell phone. Turner was serving a sentence for robbery out of Montgomery County, and was due to be released in less than a year from the time he was killed.

    Carroll was already serving life without parole for the 1995 robbery and slaying of a Birmingham Laundromat owner. Betty Long was shot in the abdomen in front of her daughter at their Kingston Laundromat. Ninety dollars was taken in the holdup, along with the daughter's necklace.

    Jefferson County Circuit Judge Alfred Bahakel sentenced Carroll to death in 1997, but the Alabama Supreme Court later overruled Bahakel's sentence. The appeals court said Bahakel didn't give adequate weight to mitigating circumstances in the case. Carroll was 17 when he killed Long.

    St. Clair County Circuit Judge Phil Seay's sentencing followed a unanimous recommendation by a jury handed down in September. Carroll, currently in prison at the St. Clair County Correctional Facility, will be transferred to one of the two state prisons that house Death Row inmates.

    "This sentence should serve as a reminder to those in our state prisons who choose to use violence that you will pay a heavy price, and possibly the ultimate price, for your actions,'' Minor said in a prepared statement.

    Assistant District Attorney John DeMarco who also prosecuted the case against Carroll had this to say: "Carroll is a convicted murderer who has killed again. He has demonstrated that he is not safe to others even when locked behind bars for life. This is the type of individual for whom the death penalty exists in our criminal justice system."

    http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/11/...barely_es.html

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    So, what do abolitionists think the sentence ought to be in a case like this one?

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    Appeals court: Birmingham man serving life in prison for murder committed as teen won't be resentenced

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A Birmingham man serving life in prison without parole for a slaying committed when he was 15 is not entitled to a new sentencing hearing, a state appeals court ruled last week.

    Mack Dailey, 34, and co-defendant Taurus Carroll were convicted in a 1995 slaying at a Kingston laundry. Dailey, who has spent more than half his life behind bars, is incarcerated at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer.

    The two teenagers entered Long's Laundry on 10th Avenue North and robbed co-owner Bettie Long, 41, and her teenage daughter, Cortney, at gunpoint on April 9, 1995. They took money and jewelry before Carroll shot Long in the stomach.

    Carroll, who was 17 at the time, ultimately was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He spent time on death row before the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a judge improperly overrode a jury's sentencing recommendation.

    Dailey, who was 15, was tried as an adult but couldn't be considered for the death penalty. In August 1998, the court of criminal appeals affirmed Dailey's conviction and sentence of life without parole.

    In June 2013, Dailey filed a petition arguing that his sentence is unconstitutional because he was 15 when he was charged with capital murder. The filing cites the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 ruling that states can't automatically sentence juvenile killers to life in prison without parole.

    In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in 2013 that says judges in the state can now sentence juveniles convicted of capital murder to life with the possibility of parole.

    On Feb. 28, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd ruled in Dailey's favor, granting him a new sentencing hearing. Prosecutors appealed that decision.

    "The circuit court abused its discretion in granting Dailey's petition, and its judgment is therefore due to be reversed," Judge Samuel Welch wrote in an opinion filed Friday.

    In Dailey's appellate case, prosecutors filed several motions in response, arguing that Dailey's request was invalid because the Miller ruling is not retroactive.

    In its 2012 Miller v. Alabama ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court didn't address whether those inmates already serving time for murders that happened when they were juveniles could be re-sentenced. The court has since refused to take up the retroactive issue.

    After the Miller v. Alabama decision, dozens of Alabama inmates filed appeals asking for sentencing reviews.

    But, earlier this year, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the decision can't be retroactively applied to cases already past the direct appeal phase. The court has since rejected a number of those retroactive appeals.

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

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    Birmingham man to stay on Death Row for stabbing fellow inmate 16 times with prison shank

    By Carol Robinson
    AL.com

    A 38-year-old twice-convicted killer will remain on Alabama's Death Row following a ruling on his most recent appeal.

    Attorney General Luther Strange today announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the capital murder conviction of Taurus Jermaine Carroll. Carroll was convicted in St. Clair County Circuit Court in September of 2012 for the murder of fellow inmate Michael Turner.

    Turner was killed Sept. 14, 2009 at St. Clair County Correctional Facility. Testimony presented at trial showed Carroll accused Turner of taking his cell phone. Though Turner repeatedly denied the theft, Carroll stabbed him multiple times with prison-made knife made from part of an air conditioner vent.

    Turner was stabbed 16 times in his head, neck and body. He died in the prison infirmary.

    Authorities said Carroll told a correctional officer that he meant to kill Turner. He was arrested the following day by prison investigators.

    Turner was serving time for a Montgomery County conviction on conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery first degree. He had been sentenced on Sept. 12, 2007 on the conspiracy charge, and July 17, 2008 on the robbery charge. He had served 2 years and 27 days of his sentences, which was due to end Aug. 17, 2010.

    St. Clair County District Attorney Richard Minor prosecuted Carroll in Turner's slaying. In 2012, Carroll was sentenced to death, and sought to have his conviction reversed on appeal. The Attorney General's Capital Litigation Division handled the case during the appeals process, arguing for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm the conviction. The Court did so in a decision issued on Friday.

    Carroll already was serving a Feb. 13, 1998 life without parole sentence out of Jefferson County for a murder. Carroll initially was sentenced to death in the 1995 murder of Betty Long in a Kingston laundromat. Long was shot in the abdomen, in front of her daughter, at the family's laundry business. Ninety dollars was taken in the holdup, along with the daughter's necklace.

    Jefferson County Circuit Judge Alfred Bahakel sentenced Carroll to death in 1997, but the Alabama Supreme Court later overruled Bahakel's sentence. The appeals court said Bahakel didn't give adequate weight to mitigating circumstances in the case.

    Carroll was 17 when he killed Long.

    http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in...9#incart_river
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Carroll's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama for further consideration in light of Moore v. Texas, 581 U. S. ____ (2017).

    Lower Ct: Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
    Case Nos.: (CR-12-0599)
    Decision Date: August 14, 2015
    Rehearing Denied: May 27, 2016
    Discretionary Court
    Decision Date: August 26, 2016

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....es/16-7685.htm

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    Supreme Court orders Alabama appeals court to review case of death row inmate

    The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday ordered the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to review the case of a death row inmate.

    The court granted the writ of certiorari for Taurus Jermaine Carroll and ordered the state appeals court to review his case.

    Carroll, 39, was convicted in 2012 for the murder of fellow St. Clair County inmate Michael Turner in Sept. 2009. Turner was stabbed 16 times in his head, neck and body, and died in the prison infirmary.

    Carroll was sentenced to death.

    In today's order, SCOTUS cited the decision in an earlier case this year, Moore vs. Texas, where the court ruled a man was not eligible for the death penalty because of an intellectual disability. The order showed a Texas appellate court did not apply proper medical standards for determining an intellectual disability, and used "wholly nonclinical" factors. Read that order here .

    The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals had earlier rejected Carroll's arguments that the trial judge in his case erroneously found that he is not mentally retarded. Carroll claimed an intelligence quotient ("IQ") test performed by a doctor indicated Carroll has "a full-scale IQ score of 71, which, according to Carroll, falls within what the Supreme Court of the United States considers the range of mental retardation."

    The Alabama appeals court also rejected Carroll's arguments that the judge was in error when he failed to consider certain factors that would have made his IQ score even lower.

    Carroll was already in prison at the time of Turner's death, serving a sentence of life without parole for murdering a woman in Birmingham's Kingston neighborhood. Betty Long was shot in 1995 in front of her daughter at the family's laundry business. The daughter's necklace and $90 were taken in the holdup.

    Carroll was 17 at the time of Long's slaying.

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    Direct appeal denied on remand on the 15th of December 2017.

    https://cases.justia.com/alabama/cou...?ts=1513369809

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    SCOTUS declines to review case of Birmingham man on Death Row for two murders

    By Carol Robinson
    AL.com

    A 42-year-old Birmingham man will remain on Alabama’s Death Row after another appeal effort has been denied.

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request to review the case of twice-convicted killer Taurus Jermaine Carroll. He was convicted in St. Clair County Circuit Court in September of 2012 for the murder of fellow inmate Michael Turner.

    Turner was killed Sept. 14, 2009 at St. Clair County Correctional Facility. Testimony presented at trial showed Carroll accused Turner of taking his cell phone. Though Turner repeatedly denied the theft, Carroll stabbed him multiple times with prison-made knife made from part of an air conditioner vent.

    Turner was stabbed 16 times in his head, neck and body. He died in the prison infirmary.

    Authorities said Carroll told a correctional officer that he meant to kill Turner. He was arrested the following day by prison investigators.

    Turner was serving time for a Montgomery County conviction on conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery first degree. He had been sentenced on Sept. 12, 2007 on the conspiracy charge, and July 17, 2008 on the robbery charge. He had served 2 years and 27 days of his sentences, which was due to end Aug. 17, 2010.

    In 2012, Carroll was sentenced to death, and sought to have his convictions reversed on appeal.

    Carroll already was serving a Feb. 13, 1998 life without parole sentence out of Jefferson County for a murder. Carroll initially was sentenced to death in the 1995 murder of Betty Long in a Kingston laundromat. Long was shot in the abdomen, in front of her daughter, at the family's laundry business. Ninety dollars was taken in the holdup, along with the daughter's necklace.

    Jefferson County Circuit Judge Alfred Bahakel sentenced Carroll to death in 1997, but the Alabama Supreme Court later overruled Bahakel's sentence. The appeals court said Bahakel didn't give adequate weight to mitigating circumstances in the case. Carroll was 17 when he killed Long.

    He remains on Death Row at Holman Correctional Facility.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...o-murders.html
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