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| Supreme Court grants stay over alleged race comment by psychologist. |
| 2011-09-17 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Dr Walter Quijano testified that black men were more likely than others to commit acts of violence. Is Quijano perhaps acting out his own guilt? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-17 23:38 |
| #3 I smell a rat here. A big, stinking rat. "This week, Houstonian Duane Buck is scheduled for execution, partly based on testimony by Conroe psychologist Dr. Walter Quijano. Ironically, Quijano was called to the witness stand by defense attorneys for Buck." So, the defense can call a witness that can so prejudice a sentencing hearing, that their client can get a stay on his execution? Very crafty. Had the defense lawyers pulled such a scheme themselves, it would have been attorney misconduct. But because it was done by their "hired gun" psychologist, who *cannot* be charged with misconduct, if he can prove what he said, which he can, their client "wins" a stay. This would be a flawless scheme, if he waited until cross examination to make the prejudicial statement. It gets worse: "Quijano gave similar testimony in six other cases, which, along with Buck's, were all red-flagged in 2000 by then-Attorney General John Cornyn. Rather than defend the cases on appeal, an appalled Cornyn conceded error, clearing the way for new trials for six of the seven." So the prosecution knew that this psychologist had bollixed up SIX other death penalty cases that were retried, but did not retry Buck's case, saying that it was an inconsequential error. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-17 10:59 |
| #2 The death penalty is carried out daily in our streets, our neighborhoods, our businesses upon innocents without the joys of due process. We lock our windows and doors at night, we avoid traveling to or through certain neighborhoods of our cities, and we worry when the sun goes down where our children are because the threat of the death penalty does alter our behavior. All we've done is shift where that penalty is carried out, but it is carried out. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-17 09:38 |
| #1 "No-one should be put to death based on the colour of his or her skin," Kate Black, one of Buck's attorneys said after the decision. Ummm no. He's being put to death because he's a cockroach with no human feelings who killed at least two other people. Put this POS down |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-17 09:30 |