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| High court rejects inmate's case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/28/2005 |
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The Supreme Court declined last week to consider whether a Tennessee Death Row inmate charged in a mass prison escape in Kentucky should get a new trial. Justices let stand a lower court ruling in favor of Derrick Quintero, who was among eight inmates involved in a breakout from the Kentucky State Penitentiary in 1988. It was the second time justices were asked to hear the appeal; in 2002, they ordered a lower court to rethink its ruling throwing out Quintero's sentence. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2001 that Quintero's right to an impartial jury was violated in his trial because seven of his jurors earlier convicted some of his fellow escapees. The court said his attorney should have objected to the jury composition. Quintero is on Death Row in Tennessee for the murder of an elderly couple, Buford and Myrtle Vester of Dover, in the course of a fugitive flight through Tennessee. The rulings in the escape case do not affect Quintero's murder conviction. The case is Bell v. Quintero, 04-386. |
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