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    Alicia Tucker guilty of jury tampering in son's capital murder trial

    A Shreveport woman has been found guilty of tampering with a potential juror in her son's 2011 capital murder case.

    A jury delivered the verdict Wednesday afternoon, in the case of Alicia Tucker. It deliberated for about 1.5 hours at the Caddo Parish Court House.

    Tucker was charged with conspiracy to commit jury tampering during the murder trial of her son, Lamondre Tucker, back in 2011. Lamondre has since been convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend, Tavia Sills, in 2008.

    The prosecution in Alicia's trial told the jury during closing arguments that she and Lamondre placed a three-way phone call and pointed out to the potential juror that all 12 jurors must be in agreement in order to hand down a sentence of death - and in fact Lamondre Tucker is on death row as we speak.

    This juror had testified that they could not impose the death penalty, but changed that testimony after being encouraged to by the Tuckers, said Caddo Parish District Attorney Charles Scott at the time.

    Lamondre was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 2011. Alicia Tucker was arrested right after the sentencing.

    And that's what Tavia Sill's mother, Vicki Britain, keeps in mind as she talks about what she thinks should happen to Alicia.

    “A small amount of time, so she can still see her son, so she can still be there for him," Vicki Britton said. "He needs his mother.”

    http://www.toledonewsnow.com/story/2...l-murder-trial
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    Alicia Tucker sentenced to 15 years for jury tampering

    A recorded phone call from jail gets a Shreveport woman 15 years in prison.

    Today, Alicia Tucker was sentenced for trying to sway a juror in her son’s 1st degree murder trial.

    In 2008, Alicia’s son LaMondre Tucker kidnapped, shot and killed his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Tavia Sills.

    During Tucker’s trial in 2011, a potential juror said she knew LaMondre and his mother and couldn't consider the death penalty as punishment, if picked as a juror.

    While LaMondre was locked up in Caddo Correctional Center, Alicia Tucker made a three-way call between herself, LaMondre and the juror, asking her to change what she said so she could serve on the jury. The phone call was recorded at the jail.

    Both LaMondre and his mother were found guilty of conspiracy to commit jury tampering.

    During Alicia’s sentencing phase today, Judge Katherine Dorroh heard three motions filed by the defense: a motion for a post-verdict acquittal, a motion for a new trial and a motion for a pre-sentence investigation.

    Alicia’s attorney explained to Judge Dorroh that his client doesn’t have a criminal history, and she’s not a threat for committing another crime.

    Judge Dorroh denied all three motions and sentenced Alicia to 15 years.

    One deciding factor for the sentence was Alicia’s outburst in the courtroom when she was found guilty of the crime. Judge Dorroh said she yelled and cursed at jurors and the prosecutor.

    Caddo Parish Assistant D.A. Dale Cox says he believes the sentence was appropriate.

    "Ms. Tucker was involved in the jury tampering, but not to the extent her son had been involved, so I think that it was appropriate that her sentence be significantly less severe than the sentence her son received for the same crime," says Cox.

    LaMondre was sentenced to 40 years hard labor, after being convicted of the crime.

    In Cox's 40 years of prosecuting off and on, he says this was the first case of jury tampering in Caddo Parish he's ever heard of.

    After the sentencing, we asked the friends and family of Alicia Tucker for comment, but they refused to give a statement.

    Alicia will appeal her sentencing, but no date has been set.

    http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/stor...gEy9VMxBU1v7UA
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    Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Shreveport killer's conviction, death sentence

    The Louisiana Supreme Court today upheld the conviction and death sentence of a Shreveport man who killed his pregnant, former girlfriend and dumped her body in a pond.

    LaMondre Tucker appealed the Caddo Parish jury verdict on a number of issues, ranging from claims the death qualification process did not represent a fair cross-section of the community to prosecutorial misconduct to allegations the presence of the Confederate flag flying at that time outside the courthouse influenced anti-death penalty views of blacks removed from potential jury service.

    A Caddo Parish jury in 2011 convicted Tucker of the 2008 kidnapping and murder of Tavia Sills, 18. Her decomposing body was found in a north Shreveport pond 3 days after she was reported missing by her mother.

    Evidence at trial showed Tucker, who days before learned of Sills' pregnancy, shot Sills twice, and he planned or attempted to set her on fire. He shot her a 3rd time to ensure her death then with the help of an accomplice used a large branch to push her body out into the pond in an attempt to hide the evidence.

    An autopsy concluded Sills was 19 weeks pregnant at the time; however, Tucker was not the father.

    Tucker has been fighting his conviction and sentence. He filed a motion to reconsider the sentence, contending his immaturity - he was 5 months past his 18th birthday when convicted - and diminished capacity made him ineligible for the death penalty.

    He also filed a motion for a new trial, alleging Sills' mother had forgiven him, denying he was the shooter and offering evidence rebutting the state's negative depiction of him in the penalty phase. When the motions were denied by the trial court Tucker appealed directly to the state's high court.

    http://www.ktbs.com/story/29936352/l...death-sentence

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    This guy has cert pending at the USSC challenging the death penalty entirely, and the justices have held on to the petition for a few weeks now. Everyone needs to keep a close eye one this one.

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    High court rejects La. inmate's death penalty challenge

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is rejecting a Louisiana inmate's appeal to consider a nationwide ban on the death penalty.

    The justices on Tuesday turned away a challenge from death row inmate Lamondre Tucker.

    Tucker's appeal is the latest to challenge capital punishment as unconstitutional after Justice Stephen Breyer issued a dissent last year calling for a re-evaluation of the death penalty. Breyer criticized the process as arbitrary, prone to mistakes and time-consuming.

    The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld Tucker's conviction for killing his pregnant girlfriend after she told him she believed he was her baby's father.

    Jurors sentenced then 18-year-old Lamondre Tucker to death after convicting him of killing Tavia Sills in September 2009.

    Breyer dissented from the denial and was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/sto...05-31-09-46-50

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    Close enough call to chill everyone. Two more and it would have gone to arguments in the fall, stymieing any executions or death warrants until at least January.

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    On August 9, 2016, the US Supreme Court denied a rehearing to Tucker's challenge.

    http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2...lings-meaning/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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