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    Albert Ezron Reid - Pennsylvania


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    Albert Reid was convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife, Carla Reid, and her teenage daughter, Diedra Moore, on December 27, 1996. The girl had alleged that Reid had molested her, and he was scheduled to face trial on that charge in January 1997. Carla Reid and her daughter were asleep in their beds when the murders took place. Reid's other children were also asleep in the home just outside of Chambersburg at the time of the murders.

    Reid was sentenced to death in Franklin County on October 21, 1998.

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    Dates set for hearings in death row inmate's case

    A death row inmate convicted in Franklin County, Pa., returned to Chambersburg on Tuesday for a hearing related to his claims of inadequate performance from his attorneys, improper jury instructions and prosecutorial misconduct.

    Albert E. Reid, 64, formerly of Biglerville, Pa., was found guilty in the Dec. 27, 1996, killing of his estranged wife, Carla Reid, then 36, and her 14-year-old daughter Deidra Moore in a Sollenberger Road home outside Chambersburg.

    On Tuesday, a specially assigned senior judge, David Grine, presided over a status conference and scheduled a pair of hearings.

    Six attorneys who have worked on Reid’s case are expected to testify March 21 and 22, 2013. The judge identified July 29 to Aug. 2, 2013, as the dates to hear from 30 other individuals, many of whom live in Jamaica and England.

    “We have quite a long witness list,” said Keisha Hudson, a federal community defender representing Reid.

    Reid urged the judge for expediency.

    “I’m asking that the case move and move in (a) timely manner, sir,” he said.

    There were no witnesses to the crimes, even though the victims were shot while sleeping in beds with Carla Reid’s other children. Pennsylvania State Police never found the murder weapon, according to published reports.

    Reid has filed several post-trial motions, including the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) filing that served as the basis for Tuesday’s hearing. Among the defendant’s claims in that PCRA is one saying a voodoo expert should have been used at trial, according to online court documents.

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed Reid’s conviction and sentence on Sept. 27, 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case in 2003.

    Reid is incarcerated in a maximum-security state prison in Greene County, Pa. All of the state’s death row inmates are involved in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania challenging the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s lethal injection procedures.

    The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News reported Chester v. Beard concerns the possibility of excruciating pain caused by two of the three drugs used in lethal injection. The newspaper said the lawsuit has the potential to stay all executions in the state, which hasn’t executed an inmate in more than a decade, while it is resolved.

    One other man remains on death row from a Franklin County case. Michael B. Singley, now 36, pleaded guilty in the November 1998 stabbing death of a Chambersburg woman and her next-door neighbor. He, too, has filed a PCRA petition claiming his guilty pleas were unlawfully induced.

    Currently, the Franklin County District Attorney’s Office is pursuing the death penalty in three homicide cases headed to trial.

    http://www.herald-mail.com/news/hm-d...,1878438.story
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    Death row inmate seeks conviction, sentence modification

    Attorneys’ actions leading up to and at trial in 1998 underwent hours of questioning Thursday as a death row inmate seeks modifications to his conviction and sentence.

    Albert E. Reid, 64, formerly of Biglerville, Pa., was found guilty in the Dec. 27, 1996, killing of his estranged wife, Carla Reid, and her 14-year-old daughter Deidra Moore in a Sollenberger Road home outside Chambersburg.

    He has filed claims of inadequate performance from his attorneys, improper jury instructions and prosecutorial misconduct under the Post Conviction Relief Act.

    On Thursday morning, Reid’s current attorney, Keisha Hudson, questioned one of his trial attorneys, Stephen Kulla of Waynesboro, Pa., about his choices and decisions. Kulla was the first witness in what was anticipated to be a two-day evidentiary hearing.

    Six attorneys who have worked on Reid’s case were scheduled to testify Thursday and today. A specially assigned senior judge, David Grine, has scheduled July 29 to Aug. 2 as the days to hear from 30 other individuals, many of whom live in England and Reid’s native Jamaica.

    Kulla, who had been appointed by the court, described a contentious relationship with his former client, saying Reid often shouted at his lawyers and told them to not prepare for the possibility of sentencing.

    “We’re fighting, fighting, fighting against this client all the time and trying to get him to cooperate,” Kulla said of the months preceding trial.

    Hudson asked Kulla why he did not highlight some inconsistencies in witnesses’ testimony in trial, referencing a man who first said he met Reid twice and later said it was three times over two months. She said that man was not cross-examined.

    It could have been advantageous to ask about those statements, but it also is important to not overburden the jury and make its members believe you are trying out multiple defenses to see what works, Kulla said.

    Reid attempted to represent himself in aspects of his trial. Through some of those efforts, testimony was submitted by a Haitian culture, religion and voodoo expert regarding a note found in Reid’s motel room.

    The court-appointed defense team turned around and hired a Jamaican culture expert who testified the note, which had a list of names, was positive in nature. Kulla said that person indicated it was “not a hit list or death list, that he wanted them to think good things about him.”

    Hudson asked why Kulla did not retain a Haitian expert. He answered that Reid’s background is Jamaican and he wouldn’t want to retain a Haitian expert who would portray the note as negative, saying that would hurt the defense.

    Hudson questioned the work of mitigation specialists who prepared evidence for use during the penalty phase of the trial. Mitigation evidence is generally utilized by a defense team to seek lighter sentences.

    Hudson asked why immigration records were not obtained and why the mitigation specialists did not delve into the details of Reid’s background based on what he shared during an earlier competency hearing.

    Reid withheld information and told the attorneys not to investigate his background or talk to his family, Kulla said.

    “It was definitely not a suggestion. It was a direction,” Kulla said.

    There were no witnesses to the crimes, even though the victims were shot while sleeping in beds with Carla Reid’s other children. Pennsylvania State Police never found the murder weapon, according to published reports.

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed Reid’s conviction and sentence on Sept. 27, 2002. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case in 2003.

    Reid is incarcerated in a maximum-security state prison in Greene County, Pa

    http://www.herald-mail.com/news/tris...,3725456.story
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    Family finds no justice in death penalty moratorium

    CHAMBERSBURG - A little girl sleeping next to her older sister woke up the morning of Dec. 27, 1996, with blood covering her dress. She went to the living room to tell her three older brothers that she couldn't wake up their sister, and they sought out their mom. When they could not wake up their mother and discovered the phones would not work, a high school age boy walked to his neighbor's house asking to call 911.

    This is how Dixie Fredrick describes the discovery of her sister and her niece's bodies in their Sollenberger Road home. Fredrick said the two had been shot "execution style" in their sleep.

    Albert Reid, 66, formerly of Waynesburg, was convicted two years later for murdering his estranged wife, Carla Reid, and step-daughter Diedra Moore. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1998, and has been undergoing the appeal process every since.

    "He did it in front of the other children, and they had to wake up to that," Fredrick said. "And that is something they will never forget."

    When Governor Tom Wolf announced his moratorium on Feb. 14, Fredrick's frustration hit a new high. Eight years after her sister's murder, Fredrick's family has not had the justice they feel they were promised by a death penalty conviction.

    "It's hard, we still miss them. We miss them a lot," Fredrick said. Fredrick described years of abuse between Reid and Carla Reid during their six-seven year old relationship. Reid had protection from abuse orders filed against him, but Fredrick said he would find ways to get to her.

    Those methods would include sugar in the gas tank, finding her in public places and attacking her. Fredrick said Reid made her sister live in fear.

    Reid was also accused of molesting Moore and was scheduled to have a hearing on the child molestation charges weeks after Carla Reid and Moore were killed.

    Fredrick struggled to understand why someone like Reid should be allowed to live, even if it is in a maximum prison jail cell 23 out of 24 hours a day.

    "While he's in there, he has access to take law books in there, he can do what he wants to do, and that's what kinda upsets me," Fredrick said. Fredrick said she's upset that she sees veterans and other people losing their homes, when Reid can have "Free medical, free housing, free food, access to whatever they have."

    Fredrick said she understands the purpose of the moratorium. She said she understands that there is new technology that may be able to exonerate people on death row.

    "But at the same point, my sister and niece didn't get an appeal," Fredrick said. "They didn't have their choice to live or die. And it was very heartbreaking."

    Fredrick has thought about ways to streamline the death row process to make it more efficient. She knows she doesn't understand the process fully, but she did get an associate's degree in law to help her understand what was going on with her sister's killer.

    Fredrick said she felt Franklin County did a really good job of prosecuting Reid and getting the conviction.

    "Now it's just the state, they need to step up and do what they need to do," Fredrick said. "Because there's so many people that are still grieving this, because we don't have closure."

    Franklin County District Attorney Matthew Fogal also believes the death penalty law isn't being used.

    "I understand the frustration of people on the timeliness of the death penalty and the lack of follow through," Fogal said.

    For him, the biggest issue with Wolf's moratorium is on a technical level. He said the term "moratorium" has no legal relevance, which makes the whole issue confusing. He said Wolf could do a reprieve on a case by case basis.

    "But I don't believe the idea of a broad moratorium is appropriate," Fogal said. "Certainly if the people want (the death penalty law) to change, then that's the job of the general assembly to change or amend it. Until then, we obviously need to follow the law."

    Fredrick questioned why they would use a death penalty sentence if they weren't going to follow through.

    "They've got this in the law, death penalty by lethal injection, and they need to do it," Fredrick said. When questioned about the ideas that the death penalty is inhuman, Fredrick said she believes these people caused inhuman suffering with their actions. Fredrick firmly believes she will not feel justice is served until Reid is dead.

    "You never get over it, but I think, and I know for a fact that my sister would have never ever forgave him," Fredrick said.

    'That's what bothers us the most, that we actually have to look at him getting away with whatever he thinks he's getting away with, "Fredrick said, believing that as long as he is alive in jail he is getting away with her sister's murder. "He could spend 24 hours a day in his little cell instead of 23, and it would still, to me, not be enough. It would not be enough."

    Carla Reid's step-mother, Fredrick's mother Barbara Gardner, said she hopes to be alive to see Reid die. She said at 79-years-old, she's beginning to worry it might not happen.

    Fredrick said "I don't know what I might sound like, but I want to see him. I want to sit behind that window and see him actually..."

    "Take his last breath," Gardner finished for her.

    "Then I will have closure that he has been taken care of," Fredrick said. "And I know he's not going to be in the same place my sister is."

    So far, Gov. Wolf has not given a timetable for how long the moratorium will stay in place. Until then, and until Reid's appeals come to an end, Fredrick and her family will live in fear that they'll never have justice.

    "I understand giving people an appeal, maybe even two. Things can happen in the courtroom," Fredrick said. "We had a pretty strong case or he wouldn't be where he is... But this has been years and how long are the taxpayers going waste their money when they could just get it over with and be done and all the friends and family could have closure."

    http://www.publicopiniononline.com/l...lty-moratorium

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