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    Albert Leslie Love, Jr. - Texas

    Also see Rickey Cummings - Texas Death Row



    Robert Sneed holds a photo of his son Tyus, 17


    Keenan Hubert



    Albert Leslie Love, Jr.


    Prospective jurors summoned for Love capital murder trial

    Williamson County officials have summoned 1,200 potential jurors in hopes of getting at least 400 to show up Wednesday to fill out questionnaires as the capital murder trial of Albert Leslie Love Jr. enters its initial stage.

    Love’s trial was moved to Georgetown after his co-defendant, Rickey Cummings, received the death penalty in November following his conviction in Waco.

    Love, 26, also faces the death penalty if convicted in the March 2011 ambush-style slayings of Tyus Sneed, 17, and Keenan Hubert, 20, at the Lakewood Villas apartment complex in Waco.

    Judge Ralph Strother of Waco’s 19th State District Court, who will preside over Love’s trial in Georgetown, said testimony is set to begin July 8.

    The prospective jurors who report Wednesday will be asked to fill out a 21-page questionnaire with 119 questions that prosecutors Michael Jarrett and Greg Davis and defense attorneys John Donahue and Jon Evans will use to help determine if potential 
jurors are suited to the case.

    Strother said Williamson County officials summon so many 
jurors because the county has a poor track record getting jurors to honor court notices.

    “Their response is not as good as ours here in McLennan County, and we are trying to make sure we don’t have to go back and summon a supplemental panel like we had to do in Rickey Cummings’ case,” the judge said.

    In Cummings’ case, attorneys questioned about 180 potential jurors before selecting 12 jurors and two alternate jurors.

    Prospective jurors are questioned individually instead of together in a large panel in capital murder cases in which the prosecution is seeking the death 
penalty.

    Individual questioning of jurors will begin June 3 and is expected to take about three weeks, Strother said.

    The judge said testimony should last from two to three weeks.

    Strother placed the attorneys in the case under a gag order, preventing them from talking to the media.

    The questionnaire for potential jurors covers a variety of issues, from their views on capital punishment to their favorite TV shows.

    It includes personal information about their families, their religious and political affiliations, their knowledge of the criminal justice system and if they or family members have had dealings with law enforcement.

    The questionnaire also asks which is the greater wrong: for a jury to find a guilty person not guilty or for a jury to find an innocent person guilty.

    It also lists the names of about 100 prospective witnesses and asks potential jurors if they know any of them.

    Alleged shootings

    Sneed and Hubert were sitting in the back seat of a car at the apartment complex at 1601 Spring St. when multiple suspects opened fire on the car. Deontrae Majors and Marion Bible, who were in the front seat, were wounded but managed to escape.

    Waco police arrested Cummings, Love, Darvis Tyrell Cummings, Kennedy Wayne Hardway and Tyrece Edwards Richards and charged them all with capital murder in the shootings.

    District Attorney Abel Reyna since has dismissed the capital murder charges against Hardway and Richards.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_...e40b16b13.html
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    Jury Selection for Albert Love Trial

    Jury selection began yesterday in the capital murder trial for Albert Love.

    His trial was moved to Georgetown after Ricky Cummings was sentenced to death in the same case last November.

    Love could also face the death penalty if convicted in the shooting deaths of 17-year-old Tyus Sneed and 20-year-old Keenan Hubert.

    That attack happened in March of 2011 at the Lakewood Villas Apartment Complex.

    Despite moving the trial away from McLennan County, 19th District Judge Ralph Strother will still oversee the case.

    The jury will be made up of people living in Williamson County.

    http://www.kcentv.com/story/22498842...ert-love-trial
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    Love Trial Update: Gang expert testifies about Love’s tattoos

    William Sustaita, a gang investigator at the McLennan County Jail, testified that he has not interviewed Love, but he said by looking at Love’s tattoos, he likely is a member of a set belonging to the Bloods street gang.

    Defense attorneys objected to Sustaita’s testimony outside the jury’s presence, however, Judge Ralph Strother ruled Sustaita can testify as a gang expert.

    The numbers five and nine, a five-point crown and a five-point star are significant to the Bloods, Sustaita said.

    The jury was shown photos of Love’s numerous tattoos, many of which Sustaita says are affiliated with the Bloods gang or a set of it.

    Defense attorney Jon Evans said Love also has tattoos with the names of his wife, mother and sister, ones with nothing to do with gangs.

    10:30 a.m.

    Jurors heard from a Waco PD undercover officer about a 2007 traffic stop in which Love was found seated with a loaded SKS assault rifle on his lap and a black ski mask, pistol and AK-47 rifle elsewhere in the car. Four other men were in the car too. Love pleaded guilty to unlawfully carrying a weapon in as a result of the traffic stop.

    Love later pleaded guilty to evading police in a vehicle during a 2008 traffic stop in which he briefly tried to flee with his wife and her two kids in the car. Officers found pain killers and marijuana residue in car. Love was placed on probation for four years.

    McLennan County probation officer Monica Harper said Love always wore a piece of red clothing or red shoes and she documented that as a possible sign of being in a gang.

    As part of Love’s probation he was required to write a life history. Prosecutor Hilary LaBorde read Love’s history to the jury. He said he was a good boy until the 5th grade, when he joined the Bloods street gang, she read.

    Love attended Prairie View A&M University where he said he was “partying, fighting, smoking weed and robbing people.”

    In 2007 Love had brain surgery to remove abscesses. He was told he couldn’t risk getting hurt in fights, so he started carrying a gun at all times, he wrote.

    His friends told him if he couldn’t fight, then shoot somebody. He carried a gun everywhere, even in church, he wrote.

    No Love family members have been in the courtroom during the trial, likely because many of them are under subpoena as potential witnesses and are therefore prohibited from being in court.

    Previously

    GEORGETOWN — Prosecutors will try to link Albert Leslie Love Jr. to gangs, drugs, shootings and robberies Wednesday morning as Love’s capital murder trial moves into the punishment phase.

    A Williamson County jury took just an hour Tuesday morning to convict Love in the March 2011 shooting deaths of Tyus Sneed, 17, and Keenan Hubert, 20, at the Lakewood Villas apartment complex on Spring Street in Waco.

    Love’s trial was moved to Georgetown because of publicity generated in Waco by the trial of his co-defendant, Rickey Cummings, who was sent to death row in 2012.

    Love, 26, has a previous felony conviction for evading arrest. Prosecutors say they will show Love admitted to his probation officer through a diary that he was involved in robberies and shootings while a student at Prairie View A&M University.

    Prosecutors also plan to show the jury photos of tattoos they say will link Love to the Bloods street gang.

    Defense attorneys plan to present evidence to show Love underwent two brain surgeries for abscesses while he was at college in possible mitigation testimony.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_...3057f2274.html
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    Second Man Sentenced To Death For 2011 Shooting Rampage

    A jury Friday in Georgetown decided on the death penalty for Albert Love, the second of two men convicted in a shooting in 2011 at the Lakewood Villa apartments in Waco that left two dead and two injured.

    Love was convicted of capital murder Tuesday in the March 28, 2011 shooting deaths of Tyus Sneed, 17, and Keenan Hubert, 20, both of whom died in a hail of bullets as they sat inside a car parked at the apartment complex on Spring Street.

    Marion Bible, then 22, and Deontrae Majors, then 20, were wounded in the shooting, which prosecutors say was in retaliation for the April 2010 murder of Emuel Bowers III, 21, who was shot as he sat in his car at the intersection of Rose and McKeen Streets.

    Love's trial was moved to Georgetown because of heavy media coverage of the trial of the first defendant, Rickey Cummings, last fall.

    Cummings was found guilty of capital murder and then was sentenced to death on Nov. 7, 2012.

    Darvis Cummings, Ricky Cummings’ brother, has yet to go to court but also is charged with capital murder in the shooting.

    "This verdict reiterates the position of the McLennan County District Attorney's Office," District Attorney Abel Reyna said in a statement Friday afternoon.

    "Violence in our community will not be tolerated and will be met with the severest of consequences," he said.

    http://www.kwtx.com/news/local/headl...216214211.html

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    Before the jury went out just before 10 a.m., prosecutor Michael Jarrett called Love a cold-blooded assassin who kills without mercy or remorse.

    “Your evil is over,” Jarrett said. “It’s time to be held accountable, Gangsta. You’re done.”
    Great quote by the prosecutor.

    There are eight people sitting on the victims’ side of the audience and no one sitting on the side designated for Love’s family.
    You know you are a horrible person if not even yo mamma shows up to trial.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_...82b39d1c4.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by tpg View Post
    You know you are a horrible person if not even yo mamma shows up to trial.
    His family members were on the witness list. They weren't allowed to be in the court room. His mother testified yesterday as one of the last witnesses in the punishment phase.

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    DA asks appeals court to reconsider ruling in Waco death penalty case

    McLennan County prosecutors are asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider its decision to overturn the conviction and death sentence of a man found guilty in a deadly double shooting.

    Albert Leslie Love, Jr., was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the murders of two men in 2013 at an apartment complex on Spring Street in Waco.

    In a Dec. 7, 2016 decision, the appeals court ruled that prosecutors should have secured a search warrant instead of a court order to obtain text messages used against Love during the trial.

    Prosecutors maintain that authorities followed the established practice in seeking a court order requiring Love’s cellphone carrier to provide the texts as well as calls.

    “At the time the evidence is obtained there has been no violation of any law. It is only an after-the-fact determination that then works to retroactively view law enforcement’s action to be a violation of the law. The review of the actions of law enforcement should be at the time of the action, not in hindsight,” prosecutors wrote in their motion for a rehearing.

    Love and Rickey Cummings were both sent to death row for the March 28, 2011 ambush-style killings of Keenan Hubert, 20, and Tyus Sneed, 17, who died in a hail of bullets as they sat in a car in the parking lot of Lakewood Villas Apartments on Spring Street in east Waco.

    Testimony in their trials indicated the two were killed in retaliation for the April 8, 2010 death of Emuel Bowers III, who was shot and killed while sitting in his car at a Waco park.

    http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/-DA...411702105.html
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    Rehearing for death row inmate denied

    MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX (KXXV) - The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals denied a state motion requesting a rehearing for a death row inmate.

    Albert Love Jr. was found guilty of capital murder in the Spring Street shooting deaths of Tyus Sneed and Keenan Hubert. The men were killed while in a parked car at the Lakewood Villas Apartments.

    His conviction was overturned in Dec. 2016. The court ruled that Love should get a new trial because of text messages used in his trial to incriminate him were not requested through a probable cause warrant.

    http://www.kxxv.com/story/35134855/r...-inmate-denied
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    Love off death row, back in court

    By TOMMY WITHERSPOON
    The Waco Tribune-Herald

    Former condemned murderer Albert Leslie Love Jr. has a decision to make: Does he want the same attorneys who represented him at trial four years ago to do so again, can his family hire a lawyer for an expensive death penalty case or does he want the court to appoint him new attorneys for his retrial?

    Love, 30, made his first court appearance Friday since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his capital murder conviction and death sentence in December. He has been back in the McLennan County Jail since May 2.

    Love was sentenced to death after a trial in Williamson County in the March 2011 shooting deaths of Keenan Hubert, 20, and Tyus Sneed, 17, at the Lakewood Villas apartment complex, 1601 Spring St.

    The Court of Criminal Appeals, in a 6-3 opinion, ruled that Love deserves a new trial because his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when Waco police seized the contents of his text messages without a search warrant, which were then used by prosecutors at his trial.

    In a motion for rehearing rejected by the Court of Criminal Appeals in April, prosecutors argued that Waco police officers were relying on what they understood the law to be at the time and exhibited a “good-faith belief” that warrants were not necessary for the cellphones.

    Now Love’s case has been returned to 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother’s court for a new trial.

    Strother told Love on Friday during a brief hearing that he has the option of having John Donahue and Jon Evans re-appointed to represent him again or have other attorneys appointed to represent him.

    Love said his family is exploring the possibility of hiring an attorney for him, which the judge said would be OK, too.

    “You can hire any lawyer that has a Bar card,” Strother told Love.

    The difference between hiring a lawyer and having one appointed at county expense is that Love has the option of choosing anyone he wants if his family intends to pay for his representation. If the judge were to appoint attorneys, they would come from a court-approved list of attorneys qualified to handle capital cases.

    Love conferred with Donahue and Evans for a bit in private Friday and asked the judge for more time to consult with his family over the decision. The judge set another status conference in the case for June 23.

    Donahue and Evans are in a bit of a touchy situation. While Love went to death row after the trial, Donahue and Evans did not file his appeal. They did object to the introduction of the text messages, which, in effect, got his conviction overturned.

    However, another of Love’s attorneys alleged in an application for writ of habeas corpus that Donahue and Evans provided ineffective assistance of counsel, a common claim in writs.

    So if Love agrees to allow Donahue and Evans to represent him again, he would have to assure the court those are his true wishes because of the writ allegations.

    After the hearing, Donahue estimated it would cost $500,000 to hire an attorney in a death penalty case because the attorney, besides charging for his time, would have to pay for expert witnesses, an investigator and other expenses.

    2019 retrial possible

    The judge said that between his normal docket and trying cases arising out of the Twin Peaks shootout, it could be 2019 before Love is tried again.

    Love’s trial was moved to Georgetown because the trial of his co-defendant, Rickey Donnell Cummings, was held first in Waco. The appeals court affirmed Cummings’ conviction.

    Rickey Cummings, like Love, is a member of the Bloods gang. He was sentenced to death in 2012 for his role in the double slaying.

    Rickey Cummings’ younger brother, D’Arvis Cummings, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September 2014. He pleaded guilty to murder as a party to the ambush slayings.

    Deontrae Majors and Marion Bible, who were in the front seat of the car Hubert and Sneed were in when they were killed, were wounded in the attack but managed to escape.

    Testimony from both trials showed Cummings and Love wanted to kill Hubert out of revenge because they thought he killed their best friend, Emuel “Man Man” Bowers III, at East Waco Park the year before.

    Prosecutors introduced Love’s cellphone records, which included 37 pages showing the contents of about 1,600 text messages.

    A message was sent to Bowers’ mother shortly after the attack that said, “mission accomplished.” Later, after Rickey Cummings was arrested, Love sent a text to his former girlfriend saying, “hide the guns.”

    Trial testimony showed Bowers’ mother, Shelia Bowers, was upset at the pace of the Waco police investigation into her son’s murder.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_...8d182f31b.html

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    Morton case affecting Love jury selection in Georgetown

    The wrongful conviction of an innocent man is casting a specter over jury selection in the Albert Leslie Love Jr. capital murder trial in Williamson County, where the Michael Morton case played out before a national audience.

    Judge Ralph Strother of Waco’s 19th State District Court said the notorious Morton case, in which the former grocery store manager spent
25 years in prison for a murder he did not 
commit, is playing a prominent role in individual questioning of potential jurors in Love’s trial.

    About 10 prospective jurors out of 55 questioned so far either were disqualified or excused by agreement because of their feelings of distrust for the criminal justice system spawned by Morton’s 
exoneration, the judge said.

    “The Morton case certainly has been a factor,” Strother said. “It has had an effect because so many people in Williamson County are aware of it.”

    Strother moved Love’s trial to Williamson County because of publicity in McLennan County in the trial of Love’s co-defendant, Rickey Donnell Cummings.

    Cummings was sentenced to death in November in the March 2011 ambush-style slayings of Tyus Sneed, 17, and Keenan Hubert, 20, at the Lakewood Villas apartments in Waco.

    Strother said that while the Morton case is being discussed with many potential jurors in Love’s case, it has not been distracting enough to give him second thoughts about his choice for the new venue.

    The judge said the Morton case had not been resolved when he selected Georgetown for Love’s trial and no one knew then how it would turn out.

    But Strother acknowledged the Morton case likely would not be mentioned as frequently if Love’s trial had been moved to a location farther away from Georgetown.

    “It occurred in Georgetown, so because of the proximity, it is fresh on everybody’s minds,” Strother said. “I certainly question if it would have come up in another county, especially to the degree of frequency that it has here.”

    Gag order

    Strother has placed prosecutors Michael Jarrett and Greg Davis and defense attorneys John Donahue and Jon Evans under a gag order, preventing them from discussing Love’s case in the media.

    Jury selection in Love’s trial began June 3 and is expected to take three weeks or more. Four jurors have been selected so far. Testimony is set to begin July 8.

    Morton was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his first wife, Christine, in their Williamson County home.

    He was freed and declared innocent in October 2011 after DNA testing of a blue bandanna pointed to another man as the killer.

    State District Judge Ken Anderson, a former Williamson County district attorney who prosecuted Morton, was arrested April 20 after a specially convened court found he intentionally hid evidence to secure Morton’s conviction in 1987.

    State District Judge Louis Sturns, who presided over the special review, said Anderson defrauded the trial court and Morton’s trial attorneys, resulting in an innocent man serving almost 25 years in prison.

    Sturns said evidence showed Anderson improperly concealed two pieces of evidence that could have proved useful to Morton’s defense: a transcript of a police interview with Morton’s 3-year-old son, who witnessed the murder and said Morton was not at home at the time; and a police report about a suspicious man parked in a green van near the Morton home who walked behind the home on several occasions.

    Authorities arrested drifter Mark Norwood after his DNA was found on the blue bandanna mixed with Christine Morton’s blood.

    Trial movement


    Norwood’s trial was moved from Georgetown to San Angelo, where only 10 people out of 140 on the jury panel had even heard of the Morton case, said Norwood’s attorney, Russ Hunt Jr., who has an office in Georgetown.

    “The Morton case was the whole reason the state agreed to transfer venue for the Norwood trial,” Hunt said. “They knew there were so many people skeptical about the state and its actions in the Morton case, and I think it’s the reason we have a new DA here in Williamson County.

    “The blue bandanna became a campaign symbol in that race and prosecutors here tell me that they are asked by jurors in every case, even misdemeanor cases, about the Morton case. People here are very familiar with the case, and it has made an impact on how people feel about the criminal justice system.”

    Waco attorney Walter M. Reaves Jr., who helped defend Rickey Cummings and has worked with attorneys for the Innocence Project in a number of cases, said he is not surprised that jurors are asking about the Morton case in Love’s trial.

    “It definitely will help the defense lawyers because I think people who are aware of that case are just more suspicious of the prosecution now and they are going to be more cautious about the decisions they make,” Reaves said.

    During the past legislative session, Texas lawmakers passed the Michael Morton Act, which requires prosecutors to have a uniform open-file policy and to hand over all evidence favorable to defendants.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_...5d1bc2603.html
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