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    Her execution date has been scheduled for June and will carry out unless she appeals. I’m beginning to think death is what she wants.
    The June date is nothing but a formality. Death row inmates are not allowed to waive their direct appeals. Moss will not be executed this year.
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    New trial requested in stepmom death penalty murder case

    No sooner than the ink had dried on the guilty verdicts, the Georgia Capital Defender group filed a motion asking for a new trial for Tiffany Moss, the Gwinnett County woman convicted of killing her stepdaughter, Emani Moss.

    The 10-year-old’s body was found in 2013 in a trash can outside the family’s apartment. Tiffany and Eman Moss, Emani’s father, originally tried to hide the crime. They plotted to tell police that she had run away and then tried to burn her body to get rid of evidence.

    Eman eventually called police and is currently serving a life sentence without parole for his role in the murder. He testified against his wife during this trial.

    Tiffany Moss represented herself throughout the entire death penalty trial, but her defense was most notable because of her “non-defense.” She barely uttered a word during the entire proceedings. Moss asked no questions of witnesses, called no witnesses of her own and didn’t present an opening or closing argument. She sat stone-faced throughout the trial, showing no emotion as the District Attorney detailed the abuse and isolation Emani suffered at the hands of Tiffany.

    After she was found guilty, Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter asked the jury to deliver a death sentence.

    “This defendant has never shown remorse," said Porter. "Never shown that she even acknowledged that she had a part in it. So she forced the state to put her on trial and prove her but guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

    Moss was found guilty of all six counts against her, including murder, and was sentenced to the death penalty.

    The Georgia Capital Defender’s group has filed a request for a new trial on six points. They claim Moss was not competent to act as her own attorney.

    During the pre-trial hearings as well as jury selection, Judge George Hutchinson repeatedly urged Moss to rely upon the backup lawyers he appointed to her. He also urged her to accept a public defender to represent her. Until the bitter end of her trial, Moss refused to accept help.

    11Alive News uncovered court documents that claim Moss has brain damage. The motion, which was filed with the Gwinnett Co. Court, says Moss had “neuropsychological testing data that showed the defendant to have damage to the premotor and prefrontal regions of the brain.”

    The Director of the Brain Research Laboratory at Emory University, Dr. Don Stein, said this type of damage is caused by some sort of precipitating event or trauma: athletic injuries, trauma to the head, damage during childbirth, meningitis, strokes or aging. Stein has not examined Moss, but he did explain what damage like this could mean.

    “What you’re talking about with prefrontal and premotor cortex (is) those areas of the brain, and especially in the left hemisphere, are very much thought to be intimately involved in executive function, decision making, and impulse control,” explain Dr. Stein.

    The actual results of the neuropsychological testing done on Moss are sealed, but it could play a role in the motion for a new trial.

    https://www.11alive.com/article/news...f-1907e1f7144d
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    So this appeal has been filed by the Georgia Capital Defender group, not Tiffany Moss, herself. Why do that? It’s clear she wants to die. And frankly, as a Georgia resident, I’d rather my tax dollars went somewhere else other than the salary of all the guards, medical staff, etc. needed to guard this one lone woman on Georgia’s DR.

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    Your response is so true. But the fact of the matter is she played the system like a violin. She will forever be in court.

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    Eh I doubt it this is mandatory but she’s shown zero desire to appeal given the fact she was pre cleared as competent and the conservative tilt of the local federal and state courts she’s going down if she refuses to appeal.

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    Tiffany Moss accepts representation in death penalty appeal

    Hearing on motion for new trial set for Nov. 15

    Tiffany Moss, the woman who was sentenced to death in April for starving her 10-year-old stepdaughter to death then disposing of the girl's body in a trash can, has accepted legal representation in her death penalty appeal.

    Josh Moore, the appellate director for the Office of the Capital Defender, a division of the Georgia Public Defender Council, and Thea Delage, a staff attorney there, sat on either side of Moss at a Friday morning hearing before Gwinnett County Superior Court Chief Judge George Hutchinson, who presided over the April trial.

    The hearing was held to set a date for another hearing on Moore and Delage's motion for a new trial. Hutchinson set the date of that hearing for Nov. 15.

    Moss' representation on Friday comes as a surprise, given she refused counsel throughout her five-day trial. While she had 2 "standby" attorneys present during the court proceedings — the two unsuccessfully argued for months prior for the court to deny Moss' request to represent herself — Moss repeatedly told Hutchinson she would serve as her own defense.

    Through the trial, Moss did not present any defense, however, and made no attempt to cross-examine any witnesses. She then sat quietly as Hutchinson read the guilty verdict, and a day later, her death sentence.

    Moss' sentence was the first in five years in the state of Georgia; the last time a jury imposed death was in March 2014 to Adrian Hargrove, an Augusta man who committed a triple murder.

    While Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter and Chief Assistant District Attorney Lisa Jones applauded the jury's verdict and sentence at the time, Moss' "standby counsel," Brad Gardner and Emily Gilbert, who were assigned to Moss from the State Office of the Capital Defender after the court granted her the right to represent herself in the capital trial, were visibly upset with the results.

    "I think this ridiculous spectacle speaks for itself," Gilbert said after the court adjourned. "(We'll appeal); it'll be another whole team, plus us. There will probably be lawyers all over the country that want to help us with this."

    Gilbert was not wrong in her prediction; Moore and Delage hope to convince Hutchinson in November to grant a new trial.

    That hearing will be held at 9 a.m.

    (source: Gwinnett Daily Post)
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