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    Former Peninsula cop's death sentence upheld in bodies-in-barrels murder case

    A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of a former Peninsula police officer convicted of murdering six people in his Burlingame warehouse during the early 1980s.

    In a unanimous ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Anthony "Jack" Sully's bid to overturn his convictions and death sentence, giving him few remaining legal options to avoid execution if at some point California resumes lethal injections at San Quentin.

    A San Mateo County jury in 1986 found Sully guilty of murdering five women and a man in 1983, carrying out the murders in an electrical supply warehouse where his victims, most of them prostitutes, were beaten, stabbed and shot in drug-fueled crimes. Three of the bodies were later found stuffed into barrels dumped in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

    The appeals court rejected Sully's arguments that his trial was tainted by an ineffective defense, including a failure to present evidence of his mental disorders, calling the evidence at his penalty phase "staggering."

    Sully, a police officer from 1966 to 1974, maintained at his sentencing that he did not get a fair trial, telling the judge, "I am not a monster, not a maniac, not subhuman," according to news accounts at the time.

    Sully can ask the 9th Circuit to reconsider the appeal with an 11-judge panel, or petition the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may face long odds -- the opinion was written by Judge Sidney Thomas and joined by Judge Marsha Berzon, two of the 9th Circuit's more liberal judges who are ordinarily receptive to the legal arguments of death row inmates.

    Even if Sully's further appeals fail, California is still years away from carrying out an execution as a result of ongoing legal challenges to its lethal injection procedures.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-cou...entence-upheld
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    REALLY ????!!!!! 5 years to rule on this case? And then a unanimous ruling with even "two of the 9th Circuit's more liberal judges who are ordinarily receptive to the legal arguments of death row inmates" ruling against him with "staggering" evidence..... what the hell took so long? Were they that shocked by his actual guilt?

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    It's California and the 9th Circus of Appeals - a cesspool of liberals with an agenda of pro-abortion and pro-help-murderers-off-death row because 'we live in a world where there should be no consequences.' It should be expected when dealing with California.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MRBAM View Post
    REALLY ????!!!!! 5 years to rule on this case?
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    On November 14, 2013, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit DENIED Sully's petition for rehearing en banc.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/13-8821.htm

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    Ok, how about instead of having some weird anti-liberal freakout, you take a moment to look at things sensibly - the 9th Circuit is enormous and has by far the most number of people living within its jurisdiction. They have literally hundreds of capital cases before them, in addition to the many, many other non-capital cases that the federal courts hear. Yeah, it's going to take a little while.

    The real concern here is not with the speed of the 9th Circuit, which will always be slow, but with getting the legal challenges to California's lethal injection protocols cleared so that executions can resume.

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Sully's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (08-99011)
    Decision Date: August 6, 2013
    Rehearing Denied: November 14, 2013

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    Any news available? What'll be the next step and how are the chances of him being executed before the conviction is 30 years old?

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    Woman who helped ex-Peninsula cop murder prostitute granted parole

    CHOWCHILLA -- A woman who helped former Peninsula police officer Anthony "Jack" Sully kill a prostitute after he tortured her in a Burlingame warehouse in 1983 has been found suitable for parole.

    Keli Denise "Angel" Burns pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in 1986 and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

    Burns was found suitable for parole at a hearing Friday at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, who prosecuted the case.

    "I'm stunned that the board would find her suitable for parole," he said. "It's a bad decision that endangers our public safety in my view."

    Burns was previously found unsuitable for parole three other times, in part because she showed a "lack of remorse" and a "lack of insight into her crimes," according to prosecutors.

    New rules that require the parole board to factor in the age of a convict at the time of their crime may have played a role in the decision, said Wagstaffe, adding that Burns was 20 years old.

    In 1986, a San Mateo County jury convicted Sully, a police officer from 1966 to 1974, of murdering five women and one man in 1983 in an electrical supply warehouse. The victims, most of whom were prostitutes, were beaten, stabbed and shot.

    Burns helped Sully kill one of the victims, a prostitute, by taking a hatchet to her head, according to prosecutors. She then helped him dump her body on Skyline Boulevard

    "It was a horrific crime," Wagstaffe said.

    Wagstaffe said it will take several months to complete the paperwork needed to finalize Burns' release, and Gov. Jerry Brown could still overrule the parole board's decision.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-...der-prostitute
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    On March 29, 2016, a successive appeal by Sully was DENIED by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Sully's case was up for the US Supreme Court's certiorari conference two days ago.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....es/16-6603.htm

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