Justice for Louis Castro Perez!
The
5th Circuit Court has released an opinion denying relief to innocent
Texas death row prisoner Louis Castro Perez. Many folks will be familiar
with the case through Louis' sister, Delia Perez Meyer, who sits on the
board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Delia
has been a tireless advocate for her brother and all death row
prisoners. She has travelled the world in the fight to win death penalty
abolition. For some time, Louis has been fighting to win DNA testing of
several items found at the crime scene that contain the DNA of an
unknown person, including on a bloody towel wrapped around a knife found
at the crime scene! For more facts about the physical evidence and
issue in this case please check out: http://nodeathpenalty.
The
latest appeal for Louis was based on an issue of ineffective assistance
of counsel. The 5th Circuit had previously rendered a judgement denying
Louis relief. His lawyer then had 30 days to respond, however, she
failed to respond to a 30 day deadline for filing a new motion with the
district court. In fact this attorney received notification of the
deadline and without alerting Louis or the other consulting attorney on
the case, she decided on her own not to respond to the motion,
effectively abandoning her client.
In March of
2012, after being made aware of the error, the court granted a motion to
allow Louis to reenter the appeal that his lawyer should have made.
However, late last week the 5th Circuit vacated that order, and has
decided to let the original judgement of denial of relief stand.
You can read the whole transcript of the judgement here.
We will continue to fight for justice for Louis Castro Perez and against any execution date!
The full judgement from the 5th Circuit can be read here.
2 comments:
The 10 year old girl he strangled with pantyhose missed out on numerous joys and happy moments life had to offer her because of his actions. Stop hurting the family of the victims by dragging this out.
Luis Castro Perez murdered 2 adult women and a NINE year old little girl. He should have been put down years ago. While you can certainly disagree with the death penalty itself, arguing his innocence is totally insane and makes anyone who does so look like a fool. He did the crime. There is no doubt whatsoever.
His sister has wasted 15 years of her life on a lie. I feel bad for her.
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