Entries tagged with “James Dailey”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Oct 05, 2021
Florida Supreme Court Denies Challenge to Death-Row Prisoner James Dailey’s Conviction, Finds Evidence of Innocence ‘Immaterial’ or ‘Inadmissible’
Calling his evidence of innocence either immaterial or inadmissible, the Florida Supreme Court on September 23, 2021 denied death-row prisoner James Dailey’s (pictured) post-conviction challenge to his conviction for the 1985 murder of a teenage…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Sep 23, 2021
Florida Supreme Court Denies James Dailey’s Innocence Challenge to His Conviction and Death Sentence
Calling his evidence of innocence either immaterial or inadmissible, the Florida Supreme Court on September 23, 2021 denied death-row prisoner James Dailey’s post-conviction challenge to his conviction for the 1985 murder of a teenage…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Jun 01, 2020
One Day After Exposé of Informant Wins Journalism Award, Florida Trial Court Denies James Dailey’s Innocence Claim
A Florida judge has denied death-row prisoner James Dailey’s motion for a new trial on May 29, 2020, ruling that no new admissible evidence supported Dailey’s claim of innocence. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Pat Siracusa’s decision came just one day after journalist Pamela Colloff won a National Magazine Award for her investigation of a notorious jailhouse informant who provided key testimony against…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Feb 21, 2020
Florida Court Grants Hearing to James Dailey on Innocence Claim
A Florida state court judge has granted death-row prisoner James Dailey an evidentiary hearing on his claim that he did not commit the murder for which he was sentenced to death three decades…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Religion
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 06, 2020
Prosecutors, Catholic Bishops, and Conservative Group Submit Briefs Asking U.S. Supreme Court to Review Case of James Dailey
Three groups, representing prosecutors, the Catholic Church, and political conservatives, have filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the efforts of Florida death-row prisoner James Dailey (pictured) to obtain judicial review of his innocence claim. Dailey filed a petition for certiorari on January 10, 2020 asking the Supreme Court to hear his case, after the Florida courts refused to consider evidence that another man had confessed to the…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Upcoming Executions
,Dec 18, 2019
James Dailey Faces Execution in Florida Based on Testimony of Serial Jailhouse Informant Police Called “Con Man Extraordinaire”
Paul Skalnik is a sex offender and con man whose jailhouse “snitch” testimony was used by Florida and Texas prosecutors to convict more than 37 defendants, including four who were sentenced to death. His testimony that James Dailey (pictured) allegedly confessed to the brutal 1985 stabbing and drowning death of 14-year-old Shelley Boggio contributed to Dailey’s conviction and death sentence, despite the prosecution’s admission that no “physical evidence,” “no…
Executions
Upcoming Executions
,Oct 24, 2019
Courts Grant Stays of Execution on Procedural Grounds in Two Cases Raising Significant Guilt-Related Questions
Courts in Texas and Florida have granted stays of execution to two men who faced imminent execution despite serious questions as to their involvement in the murders for which they were sentenced to death. On October 22, 2019, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) stayed the execution of Ruben Gutierrez (pictured, left), which had been scheduled for October 30. The following day, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Military
,Oct 11, 2019
100th Execution or 30th Exoneration? Florida Sets Execution Date for 73-Year-Old Military Veteran Who May Be Innocent
Florida has scheduled the execution of 73-year-old James Dailey (pictured) for November 7, 2019, despite substantial evidence that he had no involvement in the killing, including a statement by the admitted killer, Daley’s co-defendant, that he had acted alone. Dailey stands to be either the 100 death-row prisoner put to death by Florida since executions resumed in the 1970s or the state’s 30th death-row…