{"id":336,"date":"2006-02-20T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-02-20T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:58:13","slug":"scotus-denies-morales-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/scotus-denies-morales-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Denies Morales Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0602\/winchell.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/>I must say that I&#8217;m surprised that <strong>Justice Kennedy<\/strong> sent this up to the entire <strong>SCOTUS<\/strong>. The appeal had been shown to be without merit to several courts below. However, it now appears that <strong>Michael Morales<\/strong> final appeal has been denied and that justice will finally be done for his victim and her family. <\/p>\n<p><em>Inset: Morales&#8217; victim Terri Winchell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the <strong>Sacramento Bee<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/state_wire\/story\/14208150p-15034300c.html\">U.S. high court denies killer&#8217;s bid for stay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the execution of convicted killer Michael Morales, ending his legal battle to avoid the execution planned for just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Anthony Kennedy reviewed the case, then sent it to the full court, which denied Morales&#8217; final appeal at 6:29 p.m. EST, according to court spokesman Ed Turner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court entered orders denying the request for stays of execution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was the only legal option left for Morales, 46, who is scheduled to die from lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. at San Quentin State Prison for killing teenager Terri Winchell, of Lodi.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that I&#8217;m surprised that Justice Kennedy sent this up to the entire SCOTUS. The appeal had been shown to be without merit to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,27,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-degenerates","category-judiciary","category-law-and-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}