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Comparative Constitutional Law Keyed to Sutton, 5th Ed.
Washington v. Gregory
Citation:
427 P.3d 621 (2018)Facts
In 1996, Allen Eugene Gregory raped, robbed, and murdered G.H. in her home, stabbing her multiple times in the neck and back. DNA evidence connected Gregory to the crime scene after he was investigated for a separate rape allegation in 1998. A jury convicted him of aggravated first-degree murder in 2001 and sentenced him to death. The Washington Supreme Court reversed the death sentence in 2006 due to prosecutorial misconduct and reliance on rape convictions that were subsequently reversed. On remand, a new jury again sentenced Gregory to death in the penalty phase. Gregory commissioned statistical studies (the Beckett Report) demonstrating that black defendants in Washington were 3.5 to 4.6 times more likely to receive death sentences than similarly situated non-black defendants, and that significant county-by-county variation existed in seeking and imposing capital punishment.
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