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| SCOTUS rejects appeal by Alabama death row inmate convicted in pipe bombing that killed judge |
| By al.com- Kent Faulk |
| Published: 01/08/2018 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won't review the case of Walter Leroy Moody Jr., the man on Alabama's death row for the 1989 pipe bombing death of federal appeals judge Robert S. Vance. U.S. Supreme Court justices did not issue a written opinion on why it would not review Moody's case. Moody, who at 82 is the oldest inmate on Alabama Death Row, was seeking to appeal an U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in March 2017. That appeal regards his decision to represent himself at his 1996 capital murder trial. After convicting him, the jury voted 11-1 to recommend a death sentence. "We are disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision," Spencer Hahn, an assistant federal public defender who represents Moody, said in a statement to AL.com on Monday. "This non-unanimous death verdict resulted from a case in which the defendant represented himself, despite numerous requests for counsel. Our court system should be concerned about the obvious unfairness of such a situation." Read More. |
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