Feds Consider Death Penalty Charge in Eve Carson Case
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News & Observer (Raleigh), September 30, 2008
Federal authorities are considering charges that could result in a federal death sentence for a man accused of killing UNC-Chapel Hill student leader Eve Carson.
A committee in the U.S. Justice Department met Monday to review the case, a spokesman confirmed. However, the spokesman, Erik Ablin, declined to comment further. The committee’s recommendation will go to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Two people, Demario Atwater, 22, and Laurence Lovette 17, are accused of shooting Carson on a residential street after a robbery and kidnapping near the campus March 5. Their trials are expected to take place next summer at the earliest.
Orange District Attorney Jim Woodall has said he will seek the death penalty in state court for Atwater; Lovette is not subject to capital punishment because of his age.
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It was not immediately clear what federal charges could be involved, and Ablin declined to explain why the U.S. attorney has jurisdiction in the Carson case, saying, “The internal deliberations on a particular case are confidential.”
Nearly 50 different federal crimes can trigger a federal capital case. Several could apply in the Carson case: first-degree murder, shooting with a weapon of mass destruction such as a sawed-off shotgun, or murder during a kidnapping, carjacking or other crime of violence. WRAL-TV reported that federal authorities were considering a carjacking charge, but the station did not name its source for the information.
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To seek the death penalty against a defendant in federal court, a local U.S. attorney must submit the case to advance review by the Justice Department. The Review Committee on Capital Cases, which met Monday in the Carson case, considers the request and then makes a recommendation to the attorney general.
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[Editor’s Note: Earlier stories on the Eve Carson case can be read starting here.]
(Posted on October 1, 2008)
Comments
Federal authorities are considering charges that could result in a federal death sentence for a man accused of killing UNC-Chapel Hill student leader Eve Carson.
This is controversial? Fry them and Fry Mumia while your at it.
Posted by S & GS at 5:51 PM on October 1
Feds “Consider the death penalty? Consider? Consider? They need to read the forensic evidence on Eve’s body. They need to read it, over and over. There is nothing to consider. These two are worse than animals. Calling them that is an insult to animals, that at least have to kill to eat.
Posted by Bobby at 6:51 PM on October 1
Death for both of these barbaric , racist, parasitic, males; real tough attacking a feminine coed with weapons.
Posted by Michigan Patriot at 9:51 PM on October 1
This case makes me so unspeakably outraged. Hopefully the federal prosecutor will proceed with the death penalty in this case and carry the sentence out. Of course this will be met with the usual noise from the nutjob leftists and black apologists who will claim that these two murderers are the real victims. A swift execution with little fanfare might give some of these domestic terrorists a seconds pause before they murder.
Posted by Eric at 10:12 PM on October 1
Why a 17 year old criminal can’t be executed is a mystery to me, since obviously he knows right from wrong. Citing his age as an excuse for leniency is nonsense, and it only serves to inform other punks just like him they can murder and won’t have to worry about the death penalty.
Black teenage crime and murder is higher than any other age group in the population, and they should be made to understand that being stupid or young doesn’t get them a pass for murder.
As usual, the only justice the public will get is that which they administer themselves. Everybody should keep in mind in those states that are sensible enough to have self-protection laws, like Fla. and Texas, that if anybody starts at another aggressively he is allowing his intended victim to put a bullet in his head, free of charge.
Posted by Ranger at 11:21 PM on October 1
Since when is a sawed-off shotgun ‘a weapon of mass destruction’? Perhaps this is the real reason Bush invaded Iraq—Sadam had a cache of these global-threatening weapons.
Sadly, this is yet another example of how the Federal government unconstitutionally sticks their politically-correct noses in a States’ Rights issue. This murder case is a matter for the local jurisdiction, and I trust them much more than I would some suits up in Washington to handle the matter properly.
These two animals should be dealt with the way the locals see fit, and that means the greatest fear of any Black criminal: a little ‘Southern Justice.’
Posted by at 8:50 AM on October 2
To Oct. 2, 8:50 AM poster:
The problem is that there is no “Southern Justice” available in Orange County, NC to be dispensed. No one has been sent to death row from an Orange County court since 1973, although there have been plenty of potential death penalty cases.. 70%+ of the Orange County jury pool is multiculturalist/socialist black or guilt ridden white. A Federal jury drawn from the entire Federal district would be far more likely to convict 22 year old Atwater in a Federal death penalty case than an Orange County jury in a State death penalty case.
Posted by Flaxen-headed Strumpet at 10:08 AM on October 2
I wonder how many blacks Obama will parton after he becomes Pres.They better seek the death penalty or there may not be any justice for this murder or several like it all over the country.White folks better wake up before they put him in office,white ppl better find some other reason to feel good about themselves before its too late.
Posted by at 10:58 AM on October 2
There is no problem here, Eve Carson just experienced the diversity that she and her sisters voted for.
Posted by MW at 11:53 AM on October 2
Granting any leniency based on the murderer’s age just means that the youngest member of the pack will always be the triggerman.
Posted by Legal Eagle at 11:55 AM on October 2
No one would like to see this punk hang more than me, but as has been previously noted, the federal government clearly has no authority or jurisdiction in matters such as these.
Posted by Travis Bickle at 3:48 PM on October 2
Short shotguns have been regulated by the federal government since the National Firearms Act of 1932, which was originally passed as a tax measure. Any shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long or an overall length of less than 26 inches is a “short shotgun” under this law, and must be registered with the federal government and a tax paid on it, just the same as for a machinegun, a short rifle (barrel less than 16 inches or overall length less than 26 inches) or a suppressor (= “silencer”). The federal government has instant jurisdiction if they want it over any crime committed with one of these weapons. Additionally, the federal government has instant jurisdiction over any kidnapping case if they want it, even if the kidnapping does not cross state lines.
I hope this clears things up, 8:50 AM.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 3:57 PM on October 2
Flaxen-Headed Strumpet wrote:
A Federal jury drawn from the entire Federal district would be far more likely to convict 22 year old Atwater in a Federal death penalty case than an Orange County jury in a State death penalty case.
This is why I don’t automatically knee-jerk oppose the Federalization of certain violent crimes. A Federal jury trial for a crime committed in St. Louis City happens in the Federal district courts for Eastern Missouri, which is based in downtown St. Louis. However, the jury pool can come from anywhere in the eastern half of Missouri. A state trial based on a crime committed in St. Louis City must have jurors from the state judicial district, meaning St. Louis City, meaning black, meaning nullification.
Posted by Question Diversity at 4:37 PM on October 2
MW said “There is no problem here, Eve Carson just experienced the diversity that she and her sisters voted for”
This is something that many people are unaware of regarding this young lady.
Although her death was tragic and horrible and these two skels deserve “Back Woods Justice”, she campaigned leftist ideas and propaganda around this idea of “Diversity” and “Multi-Culturism”, her demise came at the hands of the venom with which she centered her ideas around.
Again, Ms. Carson is the product of these institutions who continuously push their agenda down the throats of these highly impressionable youth.
Google her and see what you come up with….
Posted by PressOneForEnglish at 6:28 PM on October 2
The federal government has instant jurisdiction if they want it over any crime committed with one of these weapons.
The federal government may claim such jurisdiction, but the constitution clearly says otherwise. Read the Tenth Amendment.
Posted by Travis Bickile at 10:25 PM on October 2
“There is no problem here, Eve Carson just experienced the diversity that she and her sisters voted for”
Eve Carson may have been naive but she didn’t deserve to die for it. You have to remember she was a young adult who has been brainwashed by the MSM and school system all of her short life. Their are those here on Amren as well as others that used to be like her when they were young but as they got older and more experienced in the real world, they changed. She might have changed too later on. We’ll never know.
Posted by kc at 3:36 AM on October 3
The federal government claims jurisdiction over NFA weapons because they were part of interstate commerce, just the way car-jacking was federalized because the vehicle was once part of interstate commerce. They’re on thin ice constitutionally here, I’ll admit. The interstate commerce clause was manifestly NOT intended to be the “do anything you want” clause, but if the feds are going to prosecute 22 year-old guys who put folding stocks on Chinese-made SKS carbines, they should certainly prosecute goons who abduct and murder pretty college co-eds with sawed-off shotguns.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 2:14 PM on October 3
We have got to make sure that Obama does not win this election, or all this black on white genocide will grow exponentially worse.
Posted by Endangered White Species at 7:12 PM on October 3
As an aside, the feds don’t need to claim jurisdiction over crimes committed with National Firearms Act weapons to prosecute Miss Carson’s killers. Technically, the federal government has jurisdiction over ANY kidnapping or murder, since these represent violation of the victim’s constitutional rights to liberty and life, respectively.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 3:20 PM on October 5