Jewish Groups Rally Around Death Row Inmate Who Says Trial Judge Was Anti-Semitic

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Published: Sep 7, 2019
Author: Carol Kuruvilla
Post Date: 2019-09-07 18:55:16 by Dakmar
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American Jewish groups are chiming in to support a Jewish inmate on Texas’ death row who contends that the judge who presided over his capital murder trial was anti-Semitic.

The Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S., joined with the advocacy group American Jewish Committee, over 100 Jewish lawyers in Texas and others to file an amicus brief on Thursday in support of Randy Halprin, who is asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his scheduled Oct. 10 execution.

Among the evidence cited by the groups is an anti-Semitic slur the judge allegedly used to describe Halprin. (Note that the judge’s language appears uncensored below.)

The brief argued that Halprin has a constitutional right to an impartial judge.

“Well into the twenty-first century, it is beyond dispute that a trial conducted before a racist judge who boasts of his bigotry is no trial at all,” AJC general counsel Marc Stern said in a related press release.

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#1: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#0)

From the story:

Halprin was sentenced to death in 2003 by then state District Judge Vickers “Vic” Cunningham for his role in the so-called Texas 7 prison escape. Halprin was one of seven men who escaped from a South Texas prison in December 2000 and went on to commit several robberies, including a Christmas Eve crime in which a police officer was killed. Four members of the group have already been executed, the fifth killed himself before he could be recaptured, and the sixth is also set to be executed this year.

This guy is obviously a confirmed psycho killer. He is a bad apple. The sooner they give him the chair, the better off we will all be. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-07 23:23:32   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#1)

ADL’s amicus brief provides historical context for the blatantly anti-Semitic terms and phrases attributed to the presiding judge in Mr. Halprin’s criminal and capital trial.

We must stop certain hurtful words from being used in courtrooms.

Dakmar posted on 2019-09-07 23:43:27   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#1)

“Mr. Halprin’s trial judge, who presided over the death-penalty trial, made critical decisions about what evidence the jury would hear, and sentenced Mr. Halprin to die, was biased against Mr. Halprin, referring to him as a “f****n’ Jew” and a “G*****n k**e,” Halprin’s attorney, Tivon Schardl, said in a statement.

That's like 12 stars. I rarely get more than 3.91

Dakmar posted on 2019-09-08 00:23:40   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Darkwing    To: Dakmar (#0)

The ADL was started because the courts were to put a jew child raper in prison for life. The ADL told the world that the courts were picking on him because he was a jew.

Darkwing posted on 2019-09-08 13:38:15   Reply   Private Reply