The Racial Justice Act, which sounded so good in theory to many liberals, will soon be applied to real-life death penalty cases:
A judge is scheduled to hear motions Tuesday on three pending first-degree-murder cases that ask that the start of each trial be delayed until after a study on the death penalty and race is finished.
The motions were filed under the state’s recently passed Racial Justice Act.
….One of the cases involves Mikal Deen Mahdi, who is on death row in South Carolina. Mahdi is accused of killing a gas station clerk in Winston-Salem in 2004 during a crime spree that started in Virginia.
Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty but a hearing to determine whether they can or not has not been held because Mahdi is in South Carolina and has not been extradited.
A trial is tentatively scheduled for July 12, 2010.
Mahdi was placed in isolation cells last week after authorities said he and another death-row inmate, Quincy Jovan Allen, stabbed a prison guard with a makeshift weapon.
Allen killed four people in a crime spree in 2002 across North Carolina and South Carolina, including a clerk and a customer at a Citgo just off I-77 near Dobson.
Does this sound like the proper administration of justice?
