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Texas court stays execution on intellectual disability grounds
RAMIRO IBARRA
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed the execution of a man who says he's intellectually disabled and thus can't constitutionally be put to death.
The court handed down the ruling Wednesday, ordering a lower court to review the merits of Ramiro Ibarra's arguments.
Ibarra, 66, was sentenced to death in 1997 for the sexual assault and murder of 16-year-old Maria Zuniga a decade earlier in McLennan County. He was scheduled to be executed March 4.
Ibarra has challenged his death sentence a number of times on intellectual disability grounds, saying it violates the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
The court declined the stay on seven other claims presented by Ibarra's lawyers, including that the state relied on "outdated and unreliable DNA tests" to secure his conviction, that the state presented false and misleading evidence, that the death sentence was based on false testimony, and that his execution would violate due process.
Ibarra is the third death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in Texas this year who has received a stay.
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FLORIDA – mentally ill death row inmate gets stay of execution – FERGUSON
october 21,2012 http://www.globalpost.com
John Errol Ferguson will add another week to the 34 years he has been on death row in Florida. The convicted mass killer was granted a stay of execution by a federal judge on Saturday.
Defense attorneys have argued for decades that Ferguson is mentally ill and that putting him to death would be "cruel and unusual punishment".
He execution was originally scheduled for Tuesday
"The issues raised merit full, reflective consideration," the court said when US. District Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley granted the motion for a stay.
Ferguson's attorneys told AP that the court will hear three hours of arguments on his habeas corpus petition on Friday. His lawyers are arguing that Ferguson is unfairly on death row because the court used an old and outdated definition of competency.
They contend that Ferguson is insane and that a 2007 US Supreme Court ruling prohibits the state from executing him, reports AP.
"In order for the state to execute him, Mr. Ferguson must have a rational understanding of the reason for, and effect of, his execution," Chris Handman, an attorney for Ferguson, told AP in an emailed statement.
"A man who thinks he is the immortal Prince of God and who believes he is incarcerated because of a Communist plot quite clearly has no rational understanding of the effect of his looming execution and the reason for it."
Ferguson was convicted of the July 1977 murders of six people during a home-invasion robbery, reports the Miami Herald. He was convicted separately of posing as a police officer and murdering two teenagers in January 1978.
Ferguson has had a long history with mental illness and crime. In 1971, he was declared psychotic and incompetent by a court-appointed doctor years before his first murder, reports the Tampa Bay Tribune.
"He is completely paranoid. A schizophrenic," Handman, whose law firm, Hogan Lovells, has represented Ferguson pro bono for more than 30 years, told the Miami Herald.
"When you meet him, he is deeply suspicious of your motives. He has a very tenuous grasp on reality."
Posted in Death Sentence, EXECUTIONS US 2012, FLORIDA EXECUTIONS, Mental illness, OCTOBER, STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012, Supreme Court, Update and tagged capitalpunishment, execution, Ferguson, florida, mental illness, stayed, United States Supreme Court on October 22, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. 1 Comment
TEXAS – High court stops execution of Houston cop killer Anthony Haynes
OCTOBER 18, 2012 http://abclocal.go.com
HUNTSVILLE, TX — The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the execution Thursday of a 33-year-old Texas prisoner for gunning down an off-duty Houston police sergeant 14 years ago.
Anthony Haynes had been set to die for the shooting death of Sgt. Kent Kincaid, 40, while the officer was with his wife driving in their own vehicle not far from home. Their SUV had been struck by an object from a pickup truck, cracking its windshield. When Kincaid got out to talk to the people in the truck and told them he was a police officer, he was shot in the head.
The high court ruling came about three hours before Haynes could have been taken to the death chamber.
Haynes confessed to the May 1998 slaying, was tried for capital murder the following year and sentenced to death.
His lethal injection would have been the 11th this year in Texas, the nation's most-active death penalty state. Another is set for next week.
Evidence showed the object that hit the Kincaids' SUV was a .25-caliber bullet from the same gun used to shoot him. Testimony at Haynes' 1999 trial in Houston showed that same evening Haynes had committed a series of armed robberies.
Haynes' trial lawyers showed "virtual abdication of their duty" by failing to more fully investigate and present evidence of Haynes' good character to jurors who were deciding his punishment, his appeals attorney, A. Richard Ellis, told the high court in his appeal.
He also contended prosecutors unfairly painted Haynes, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, "as an out-of-control, violent and unpredictable individual who was subject to intermittent fits of rage."
"This picture was totally at variance with his actual character," Ellis said.
The appeal also faulted attorneys at earlier stages of Haynes' appeals for not addressing the trial defense issues and contended lower court rulings and Texas appeals procedures unfairly kept Haynes from raising the claims now. Similar appeals in recent Texas death penalty cases have failed to win reprieves from the high court although at least one other did. That case, involving prisoner John Balentine, is set for conference before the justices for later this month.
The arguments center on a Supreme Court ruling favorable to an Arizona prisoner who couldn't find a way to make an appeal under procedures in that state. Texas attorneys argued the statutes in Texas were different, did allow for appeals like the one Haynes wanted considered and that courts had determined the Arizona ruling had no effect in Texas.
State attorneys contesting Hayne's appeal argued his previous attorneys didn't abandon him and shouldn't be considered ineffective because they chose issues different from those now being pursued by Ellis.
"Haynes does not now present any compelling reasons for this court to review his claims," Jeremy Greenwell, an assistant Texas attorney general, told the justices.
Greenwell pointed out evidence of Haynes' history of explosive temper outbursts, of police being summoned to deal with his threats against a school nurse and an ROTC instructor, that he assaulted his 3-year-old sister and tried to kill the family dog.
"He was no angel," Mark Vinson, the Harris County district attorney who prosecuted Haynes, recalled last week.
Kincaid's wife couldn't describe the shooter and provided only a cursory description of the truck but said she was certain her husband identified himself as a police officer, a distinction important in that it allowed prosecutors to try Haynes for capital murder and make him death-penalty eligible. Haynes' trial lawyers said he didn't know the man who approached was an officer and feared for his own safety.
One of the robbery victims earlier the evening of the shooting identified a companion of Haynes as participating in the holdup, and that led detectives to Haynes. He took police to separate sites miles apart where he left the gun and ammunition clip.
Posted in EXECUTIONS US 2012, OCTOBER, STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012, TEXAS EXECUTIONS and tagged capitalpunishment, Hayne, Huntsville Texas, huntsville tx, stayed, texas, texas appeals on October 19, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. 5 Comments
TEXAS – Decision adds to scrutiny of death penalty cases – Anthony Bartee
May 26, 2012 Source : http://www.mysanantonio.com
At 3:25 a.m. on May 2, Anthony Bartee was eating breakfast, not knowing if it would be his last.
That evening, Bartee, 55, was to be strapped to the gurney in the death chamber in Huntsville for the 1996 robbery and slaying of his friend David Cook, 37.
Bartee's attorney David Dow started his day scrambling to get his client a second stay — the first was granted within a week of Bartee's original Feb. 28 execution date. In addition to the usual appellate route, Dow took an atypical one.
He filed a federal lawsuit against the Bexar County district attorney's office, claiming that Bartee's civil rights were violated by prosecutors withholding evidence for DNA testing that could prove his client's innocence.
The DA's office doubted the attempt would work because Bartee had 15 years to make evidence claims. And besides, he wasn't convicted based on DNA. But with Bartee's death imminent, Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery granted the temporary stay to allow more time to examine Dow's civil rights claims.
The ruling was rare, experts said, and speaks to an ever-increasing scrutiny of death penalty cases as exonerations from post-conviction DNA testing continue to mount.
"The courts are more cautious, and most people think they should be if there is a question about it," said Cornell University Law School Professor John H. Blume.
Juries, too, are handing down fewer death sentences, nationwide and locally.
Local prosecutors have noted the trend and are taking a harder look at whether to seek death.
"We don't go get the death penalty just because we can," First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg said. "It's a very serious decision-making process."
Dow did not return phone calls or emails.
A majority of Texans, 73 percent, either strongly or somewhat support the death penalty, according to a University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tribune poll published Thursday. The number drops to 53 percent when asked about the option of life without parole.
A majority of Americans also support the death penalty, according to a 2011 Gallup Poll. But at 61 percent, that support is at its lowest point in 39 years, the poll concluded.
Since the state adopted life without parole in 2005 as an alternative to death, it "definitely changed the dynamics" in Bexar County, Herberg said.
Exonerations also have affected the entire criminal justice system, including jurors who must decide if someone lives or dies, said John Schmolesky, a professor at St. Mary's University School of Law.
"I think it's moved the pendulum to at least introduce an element of skepticism in capital cases," Schmolesky said.
The last death sentence in Bexar County came in 2009, a year when only one person was condemned to die although prosecutors had sought the death penalty more often than that.
Given that at least 24 people were sentenced to die in the 11-year period that ended in 2006, Bartee being one of them, that's a dramatic decrease.
Death sentences in the United States also have dropped, by 65 percent in the past 12 years, with 78 handed down last year, compared with 224 in 2000, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Prosecutors here, in deciding whether to seek the death penalty, weigh the cost of the litigation, the circumstances of the crime and the accused killer's history of violence, among other factors, Herberg said.
"The future danger aspect of it has always been an issue with the jury," he added. "If they can't get out of prison, (communities) are safer."
Bartee's own violent past wasn't known to Cook, his friends or family.
He was sent to prison for raping at knifepoint a girl, 15, and a woman, 20, in separate incidents in 1983, according to court records. At the time Cook was killed, Bartee had been out on parole for only 15 months.
The DNA factor
At 9:35 a.m. on May 2, Bartee was eating lunch and visiting with family. His father and sister planned to witness his execution. So did the father, two sisters and brother-in-law of Cook.
n San Antonio that day, district attorney's office investigator George Saidler, a retired homicide detective who worked on Cook's case, was searching the police property room for glasses and cigarettes collected 16 years ago from Cook's house.
What prompted him was Dow's new request for DNA evidence testing. Prosecutors needed to know if authorities still had the evidence, especially if a court ruled in Bartee's favor.
Biery's decision to stay the execution was a move in the right direction, said civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn, who heads the Innocence Project of Texas.
"We have to err on the side of finding out every fact that we can," he said. "I think that if we've learned anything, it's that it's hard to trust the government when they say (DNA's) not involved in this case."
Nationwide, DNA testing has been instrumental in exonerating more than 280 people, the majority in the past 12 years. Of those, 17 spent time on death row, according to The Innocence Project.
Still, that's just a fraction of the more than 2,000 people falsely convicted in the past 23 years, according to the first national registry of its kind, which was released last week.
In response to the growing number of exonerations and advances in DNA testing technology, the Texas Legislature made changes regarding DNA evidence that could help someone wrongly convicted prove their innocence.
Two changes occurred late last year. Lawmakers made it less difficult for someone convicted to get DNA testing introduced in court. Also, judges now have the power to order that DNA profiles be sent through national and state databases, presumably to find out whether someone else committed the crime.
Bartee, so far, has benefited from the new laws.
"I think you do see the courts are saying, no matter what let's test it," Herberg said. "We're certainly seeing that. That's the reason for this delay (in Bartee's case)."
The new evidence laws have ushered in debates about what to test and when. Advocates of testing argue that every avenue needs to be explored, while some prosecutors contend that more DNA testing can be used as a stalling tactic.
"DNA evidence isn't the silver bullet that's going to solve every single case," Schmolesky said. "If the (person) admits he was present, he may have left fingerprints, saliva on cups for example, or things that result in DNA testing but don't show he committed a crime."
Local prosecutors haven't wavered in their belief that further testing for Bartee's case is a waste of time.
"He wasn't convicted with DNA evidence but by his own behavior," Assistant District Attorney Rico Valdez said.
A cautious approach
At noon on May 2, Bartee finished visitation. He was transferred that afternoon from death row in Livingston to Huntsville. He had his final meal before his scheduled 6 p.m. execution and waited to see if Biery's stay would be overturned.
Just after 7 p.m., when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Bartee's execution, he thanked his family, his supporters, God and his legal team.
With the execution stalled, prosecutors also opted for caution. They sent for testing the glasses and cigarettes Saidler had found in the property room, though no court had ordered it.
They didn't want lingering unanswered questions about a conviction, if it could be helped.
"We don't want anyone thinking we just want someone executed," Valdez said.
Last week the Bexar County crime lab's testing found on the evidence the DNA of three people — two men and one woman so far unidentified. The results will now be sent through the state and federal databases. As prosecutors hunt for DNA matches, the civil rights case lingers in federal court.
To Valdez, the results so far haven't changed a thing.
And almost three months to the day Bartee was first scheduled to die, he remains on death row with no new execution date set.
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Posted in DNA, EXECUTIONS US 2012, Inmates on the death row, MAY, STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012, Texas, Update, USA NEWS and tagged Bartee, Bexar County Texas, David Cook, dna, stayed, United States on May 29, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. Leave a comment
TEXAS – Steven Staley – execution STAYED
May 14, 2012 Source : http://www.chron.com
HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday stopped this week's scheduled execution of a convicted killer whose mental health had become an issue in his appeals.
The state's highest criminal court gave a reprieve to Steven Staley, 49, who was set for lethal injection Wednesday evening in Huntsville for the 1989 shooting death of a Fort Worth restaurant manager during a botched robbery.
"This is great," said Staley's attorney, John Stickels. "I'm very happy."
Prosecutors contended Staley was competent for execution, but Stickels in his appeal to the court said that was accomplished only because a state judge in Fort Worth improperly ordered Staley be given drugs to make him competent so the state of Texas could kill him.
The appeals court spent much of the ruling's three pages recounting Staley's case in the courts and only in a final paragraph specifically addressed the appeal, saying the court had determined the execution should be halted "pending further order by this court."
It gave no reason. Justice Lawrence Meyers dissented from his eight colleagues but issued no dissenting opinion.
"I don't know what's next," Stickels said. "It just orders the execution stayed and doesn't order anything else. I'm not going to do anything until they tell me."
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Posted in EXECUTIONS US 2012, MAY, Mental illness, STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012, Texas, TEXAS EXECUTIONS, UPCOMING EXECUTIONS 2012, USA NEWS and tagged Capital punishment, stayed, steven staley, texas, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on May 15, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. Leave a comment
LOUISIANA – Todd Wessinger – Execution May 9 – Stayed
april 25 source : http://www.ktbs.com
A federal judge in Baton Rouge has granted a temporary stay of execution for a man convicted in the 1995 slaying of two workers at a now-closed restaurant.
The Advocate reports Todd Wessinger was scheduled to be executed May 9 but U.S. District Judge James Brady granted the stay while he reviews arguments presented Wednesday by his attorneys, who asked for a permanent stay of the death penalty order.
Brady did not say when he would rule on the request.
Wessinger, a former dishwasher at a now-closed Calendar's restaurant, was found guilty and sentenced to die by lethal injection for fatally shooting 27-year-old Stephanie Guzzardo and 46-year-old David Breakwell on Nov. 19, 1995
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Posted in EXECUTIONS US 2012, LOUISIANA Execution, MAY, STAYS OF EXECUTIONS 2012 and tagged Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Louisiana, Lethal injection, stay, stayed, todd wessinger on April 29, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. 1 Comment
GEORGIA – Daniel Greene's Execution – COMMUTED
april 17, 2012 source : http://www.13wmaz.com
Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles stayed the execution of former Taylor County H.S. football star Daniel Greene up to 90 days "to allow for additional time to examine the substance of claims offered by Greene's representatives" at a clemency hearing on Tuesday.
Greene was scheduled to be executed Thursday night.
A news release said the parole board may lift the stay at any time and grant clemency — commuting the death sentence to life or life without parole — or deny clemency.
Greene was convicted of fatally stabbing his former classmate Bernard Walker, 20, during a 1991 convenience-store robbery in Taylor County. A store clerk was also stabbed but survived.
Greene confessed to police, but later said he didn't remember committing the crime. He said an acquaintance had given him a cigarette earlier that day that may have been laced with a mind-altering drug.
Greene was convicted of malice murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault at trial in December 1992.
Posted in GEORGIA EXECUTIONS, UPCOMING EXECUTIONS 2012 and tagged Capital punishment, Daniel greene, Greene, Pardon, Parole board, stayed on April 18, 2012 by Claim Your Innocence. Leave a comment
TEXAS – Steven Staley – Execution – may 16 – STAYED
Facts of the Case
On September 18, 1989, Steven Staley escaped from a community correctional center in Denver, Colorado. Following his escape, Staley embarked upon a series of nine armed robberies as he fled through four states from Colorado to Texas. On October 14, 1989, Staley, accompanied by two friends, Tracey Duke and Brenda Rayburn, went to the Steak and Ale Restaurant in Tarrant County, Texas for dinner. After dinner, and just prior to closing, Staley and Duke removed two semi-automatic pistols from Rayburn's purse. Staley gathered the employees in the rear kitchen storeroom while Duke secured the front of the restaurant. While this was happening, an assistant manager escaped through a rear door and called the police.
Once all the staff was gathered in the storeroom, Staley demanded that the restaurant's manager identify himself. Robert Read stepped forward. Read was then ordered by Staley to open the cash registers and the safe. Staley also forced the other employees to get down on the floor and throw out their wallets and purses. One person attempted to stand up, prompting Staley to kick him in the chest and threaten to "blow away" the "next person that puts their head up".
While this was transpiring, the police, having been alerted by the assistant manager, arrived at the restaurant. Staley, believing that Read had activated a silent alarm, threatened to kill Read if he discovered that the police were outside. Read responded by assuring Staley that the restaurant had no such alarms. He volunteered to serve as a hostage if Staley promised not to hurt the other employees. Staley agreed to Read's proposal and left the restaurant with Read, Duke and Rayburn, using Read as a human shield. They then hijacked a car and Staley pushed Read into the back seat with him. Police officers subsequently reported hearing several gunshots before the car pulled off and while the car was accelerating away. A high-speed chase ensued, ultimately ending when the stolen car broke down. Staley, Duke and Rayburn then attempted to flee the scene but were apprehended by the police. The police found Read dead in the back of the car. According to the medical examiner, Read had been shot in the head at point blank range. The evidence indicated that both Staley and Duke had shot Read.
On April 8, 1991 Steven Staley was found guilty of capital murder. He was subsequently sentenced to death on April 25, 1991. Prior to his conviction, Staley had given a written statement implicating himself in the shooting. Tracey Duke was sentenced to three life sentences in Texas and an additional 30 year sentence in Colorado for murder and armed robbery. Brenda Rayburn, as part of a plea bargain, was sentenced to 30 years.
With regard to his competency to be executed, Staley was examined by two experts, including Dr. Mark D. Cunningham, a clinical and forensic psychologist who submitted an affidavit on behalf of the defense. In his affidavit, Dr. Cunningham stated that although he found Staley to be coherent and generally orientated and aware of his impending execution (originally set for March 23rd), Staley's unmedicated status, the psychotic symptoms he exhibited, and his "apparent growing psychotic decompensation" made "probable that he will become markedly more psychotic" between the time of evaluation (March 16, 2005) and his execution. As a corollary of this, Dr. Cunningham asserted that, as Staley's "psychosis increases in severity, it may well diminish or negate his understanding" of his death sentence or the execution. He concluded that there was "no assurance that the awareness he displayed regarding his execution [during the examination] will be present at the time of his execution".
Staley suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. People diagnosed with such mental disorders frequently have a close biological relative with similar mental illnesses. In Staley's case, his mother had a long history of mental illness. She was hospitalised in a psychiatric hospital on numerous occasions and treated with psychiatric medications and electroconvulsive therapy. Her records document an "acute schizophrenic episode".
From an early age, Staley was exposed to violent and erratic behaviour. His mother attempted to pound a wooden stake through his chest at the age of six or seven and, at a later date, attempted to stab both Staley and his sister with a butcher's knife. On each occasion she was committed to mental health institutions. Staley's father was a severe alcoholic and was killed in a road traffic accident in 1985. His maternal grandfather also committed suicide. Staley, himself, subsequently attempted suicide when he was 16 or 17 and was later placed on suicide precautions during his incarceration.
Following his incarceration, Staley was hospitalized on numerous occasions for psychiatric care. The first instance occurred on June 17, 1994 and lasted for 3 months until his discharge on September 17, 1994. Immediately following this however, Staley was found unresponsive in his cell and subsequently re-admitted on September 21, 1994 for six weeks. He was forcibly medicated despite his refusals. Staley was then diagnosed with major depression with delusional features and schizoid personality disorder with anti-social features.
Staley subsequently refused to co-operate with medical treatment, attend doctor's appointments or attend clinics. This culminated in a nurse being called to his cell to treat a seizure. Staley was then re-hospitalised, during which time he reported feelings of paralysis and audio hallucinations with voices torturing him. Again, he was released and then re-hospitalised, this time, however Staley was catatonic. Subsequent psychiatric evaluations "suggested a psychotic valley which is typical of schizophrenia, paranoid type". Hallucinations, delusions and extreme suspiciousness were noted. He was then discharged.
Staley's behaviour subsequently deteriorated and he exhibited psychotic, bizarre and on occasions, hostile behaviour. He also reported hallucinations, paralysis and exhibited delusional thinking. Staley was hospitalised ten times in total and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and anti-social personality type. During this period, Staley also suffered from depression and was placed on suicide precautions. Staley was most recently hospitalised for approximately 19 months from November 28, 2002 to June 17, 2004.
The diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia made during his incarceration is further supported by an examination by Dr. Cunningham. Dr. Cunningham also concluded that Staley suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is psychotic. In his March 17, 2005 affidavit, Dr. Cunningham reports that Staley's "speech is characterised by robot-like tone, odd syntax, neologisms (personally created words), alliterations, pseudo-intellectualism, excessive detail, and repetitive phrasing". Staley also reported "grandiose and paranoid delusional beliefs" believing himself to be on a part-time "security mission to save the world from war" with security clearance. Staley further believed that Texas was out to kill him, either by lethal injection or, "if found innocent possibly by shooting in the outside world, stabbing or poisoning by fellow inmates in prison and general mischievousness". Staley also claimed to have invented the first car, sold the blueprints to a character from Star Trek and to have been recruited as an undercover police officer at the age of thirteen.
from Steven Staley blog : http://stevenstaley.blogspot.com
Sat Mar 3, 2007 1:13 am (PST)
Order to forcibly medicate killer is debated
By MELODY McDONALD
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
FORT WORTH — For more than eight months, officials have been forcibly injecting convicted murderer Steven Kenneth Staley with anti- psychotic drugs that one day may make him sane enough to be executed.Whether Staley deserves to die is not an issue — that was decided long ago by a Tarrant County jury and upheld by the appellate courts. The controversy surrounding Staley now is a complex issue at the forefront of a legal debate about the death penalty in the United States:
Is it constitutional to forcibly medicate a mentally ill Death Row inmate to make him competent enough to be executed?
Staley's attorney, Jack Strickland, says forcibly medicating Staley, 44, is cruel and unusual punishment and should be stopped immediately.
Tarrant County prosecutor Chuck Mallin says forcibly medicating Staley is necessary to control his psychosis and to carry out a
sentence imposed by a jury more than 15 years ago.
On Thursday, both sides argued the issue before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which is expected to issue an opinion in the near
The nine-judge panel heard the arguments before a standing-room- only crowd in an auditorium at Texas Wesleyan School of Law in downtown Fort Worth.
The state's highest criminal court occasionally travels from Austin to law schools around the state to give students a chance to hear
arguments and see the criminal justice system at work.
On Oct. 14, 1989, Staley and two friends went to a Steak and Ale restaurant in west Fort Worth and sat down to eat.
After finishing their meal, they pulled out semiautomatic weapons and demanded access to the cash register and the safe. As customers and employees huddled at the rear of the restaurant, an assistant manager slipped out and called police.
A short time later, police surrounded the restaurant, and 35-year-old Robert Read, the manager, offered himself as a hostage to spare the others. The three took him up on his offer and held him at gunpoint as they tried to escape.
When Read resisted after they tried to force him into a hijacked car, he was fatally shot.
In April 1991, a Tarrant County jury sentenced Staley to death. Four months later, he found himself on Death Row.
Confined to a tiny cell, Staley — a Charles Manson look-alike who suffers from a severe form of paranoid schizophrenia — was prone to
lying in his urine-soaked cell and blackening his eyes by repeatedly beating himself in the face.
Over the years, he has refused to take his medication because he thinks he is being poisoned. He has been hospitalized up to 19 times.
Three times, Staley has managed to avoid execution after experts determined that he is incompetent and doesn't understand why he is being put to death.Federal and state law prohibits the execution of an insane or incompetent person.
Last year, Mallin and fellow prosecutor Jim Gibson filed a motion asking state District Judge Wayne Salvant to forcibly medicate Staley to restore his competence and carry out the jury's verdict.
Staley was moved to the Tarrant County Jail and continued to refuse to take his medication. In April, after a long hearing in which
Staley picked at his hair and mumbled nonsensical phrases, Salvant granted the motion — marking what is believed to be the first time a Texas judge has ordered an incompetent Death Row inmate to be forcibly medicated.
Strickland responded by filing a flurry of legal paperwork, seeking an emergency stay of Salvant's order. But his requests were denied.
During the week of June 5, according to court documents, Salvant's order was carried out and officials began forcibly medicating Staley in the Tarrant County Jail, where he remains today.
The appeal
During the hearing Thursday, Strickland asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to stop Salvant's order until he has time to explore all his
legal options.
"If allowed to stand, it would be the first time such an order has been found to be valid," Strickland said.
Strickland maintains that, in addition to being cruel and unusual, forcibly medicating Staley is indecent; violates medical ethics as
well as Staley's rights to privacy and liberty; and produces artificial competence with psychotropic drugs that have painful and
debilitating side effects.
Mallin, meanwhile, urged the court not to intervene, saying he believes that it lacks jurisdiction to stop Salvant's order.
Mallin said that Staley suffers when he is unmedicated and that the drugs' side effects do not outweigh their benefits. Treating Staley,
Mallin contended, is necessary and medically appropriate.
"When he takes it, he is competent," Mallin said. "It is by his own volition that he has decided that he is going to be incompetent. "
Strickland and Mallin each received about 20 minutes to state their cases but, most of the time, the judges peppered them with questions.
When one of the judges questioned whether they had authority to weigh in on the issue at this stage, Mallin's reply drew laughs: "The
mountain came to Muhammad," he said, referring to the panel's trip from Austin to Fort Worth.
"But I don't want to be rude and say you need to go home."
Strickland acknowledged that the case has entered uncharted waters. He told the panel that if Salvant's order is stayed, it would let him
explore options that might include trying to commute Staley's sentence to life in prison.
In his final words to the court, Strickland urged the judges not to let Texas become the first state to forcibly medicate someone so he
is competent enough to be executed.
Staley believes that he works for the CIA, that judges and prosecutors were conspiring to steal his car, and that the Prince of Wales has a summer home in Huntsville and communicates with him telepathically, Strickland said.
"We have an opportunity to do what is right, what is fair, what is decent and what is humane, and that is not to execute a crazy person," he said.
It could be months before the Court of Criminal Appeals issues its opinion. Officials said the panel could decide that it doesn't have
jurisdiction and decline to get involved; could agree with Salvant and allow the forcible medication to continue; could stop Salvant's
order; or could come up with another solution.
Regardless of the decision, one thing is certain: The issue is far from over.
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Breaking news : Garry Allen execution stayed 30 days
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A federal judge in Oklahoma City has stayed the execution of an inmate who was diagnosed with schizophrenia but found sane by a jury that considered whether he was eligible for the death penalty.
Fifty-six-year-old Garry Allen is scheduled to die by injection on Thursday. Allen pleaded guilty to capital murder after being shot in the head during his November 1986 arrest. He killed 24-year-old Gail Titsworth, with whom he had children, outside a daycare where she had picked up her sons days after she moved away from Allen. An officer shot Allen after he tried to shoot the officer.
In 2005, the state Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 to commute Allen's sentence to life in prison, but Gov. Mary Fallin had decided to allow the execution to proceed.
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Oklahoma – Garry Thomas Allen – Execution – April 12, 2012 STAYED
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Allen pleaded guilty in the 1986 shooting death of his ex-girlfriend Gail Titsworth in Oklahoma County. He was convicted in 1987. Titsworth had broken off the relationship with Allen three days before the killing and had sought a protective order. She was picking up her two sons at a child-care center when Allen shot her four times. He then struggled with a police officer and was shot in the head. Allen spent months in mental hospitals after his arrest to be treated for depression and his head injury. He was deemed competent at a 1987 hearing but won a new competency hearing in 1997 after the Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma's competency standards were too high. In the subsequent hearing, Allen was again ruled competent.
april 11, 2012 BREAKING NEWS
april 10, 2012 source : http://muskogeephoenix.com
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Members of an anti-death penalty group said Monday they have little hope that Gov. Mary Fallin will commute the death sentence of an Oklahoma inmate scheduled to be executed Thursday.
Three members of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty met with Fallin's general counsel, Steve Mullins, to urge the governor to reverse her decision to deny clemency for Garry Thomas Allen, 56.
Allen's attorneys contend he was mentally impaired when he killed 24-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth, the mother of his two children, on Nov. 21, 1986, in Oklahoma City. They say he had been self-medicating for an underlying mental illness, and that his mental condition had worsened.
Coalition board member James T. Rowan said the group does not expect Fallin to change her mind about clemency. He said Mullins indicated during the meeting that Allen's clemency request "was a close case."
"I'm satisfied that the governor has gone through an exhausting process," Rowan said.
A spokesman for Fallin, Alex Weintz, confirmed the group met with Mullins and discussed Allen's case. Weintz said Fallin appreciated their input but that there was no change in the status of the case.
"The execution is still scheduled for Thursday," Weintz said.
Fallin denied clemency for Allen on March 13, but the coalition asked her to reconsider based on the state Pardon and Parole Board's 4-1 recommendation in 2005 that Allen's death penalty on a first-degree murder conviction be commuted to like in prison.
"That is a very exceptional factor," said Rex Friend, another coalition board member.
Allen was shot in the face during a struggle with police after Titsworth's shooting death and his attorneys said he was not competent to enter a blind plea of guilty to the murder charge.
Former Gov. Brad Henry never acted on the board's 2005 clemency recommendation for Allen because a Pittsburg County judge issued a stay of execution after a prison psychological exam determined Allen had developed mental problems on death row. The doctor's report noted Allen had dementia caused by seizures, drug abuse and the gunshot wound.
A 12-member jury was impaneled in 2008 to determine Allen's sanity. Jurors rejected Allen's argument that he should not be put to death and decided he was sane enough to be executed.
Friend said Fallin went through a long and detailed process that included meetings with prosecution and defense attorneys in the case before she made her decision to deny the Pardon and Parole Board's recommendation. Rowan said Allen's execution could still be blocked if prison officials believe he is not mentally competent.
April 6, 2012 source :http://www.therepublic.com
OKLAHOMA CITY — As activists prepare to argue for clemency for a man scheduled to die next week, a death penalty expert said a blind guilty plea such as Garry Allen's is unusual in Oklahomacapital murder cases.
Allen's attorneys have argued that he was mentally impaired when he entered a blind guilty plea to a capital murder charge. Allen was shot in the head during his 1986 arrest, and he had a history of mental illness and alcohol abuse prior to the killing.
Activists on Monday plan to ask legal counsel for Gov. Mary Fallin to consider clemency for the 56-year-old man, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday.
Considering Allen's apparent combination of mental illness and alcohol abuse, he shouldn't have entered a blind guilty plea — a plea done in front of a judge without a deal — especially in a state where the death penalty is popular, said defense attorney James Rowan, a death penalty expert who does not represent Allen.
Allen has testified that he pleaded guilty to spare his family and his victim's family from the ordeal of a trial.
His lawyers had argued he was not sane and therefore shouldn't be executed, but in 2008, a jury said he was sane enough for the death penalty.
A personality test in Allen's court file shows his "probable diagnosis is Schizophrenic Disorder, or Anxiety Disorder in a Paranoid Personality." Allen, who had a history of substance abuse, had also testified that before the day of the killing, he got drunk whenever he could. Two hours after the killing, Allen's blood-alcohol level was .27— more than three times the legal limit.
Attorney Charles Hoffman, another expert on death penalty cases, said a blind guilty plea could be the result of the defendant's insistence, "bad or lazy lawyering" or a strategy to argue the defendant acknowledged guilt when a conviction is sure to happen.
"Although entering a blind guilty plea in a death penalty case may sound like a very dumb thing to do, it really all depends on the facts of the case," Hoffman said.
In the 42 capital murder cases that Rowan has tried, only two defendants entered blind guilty pleas — once because Rowan was "young and didn't know any better." In the other case, in 1989, a man killed five people in a multi-state spree, including a woman in an Ardmore, Okla., flower shop.
Rowan knew the case would be hard to win and decided to plead to the judge.
"It would almost be malpractice now to do it," Rowan said. "Even if the defendant wanted to enter a guilty plea, I think you'd be almost incompetent to do that."
In 2005, the Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 to recommend life without parole instead of execution for Allen, but Fallin has decided to proceed with the execution.
Fallin has said she and her legal team gave Allen's case a thorough review, and she has no plans to change her decision.
Allen shot 42-year-old Lawanna Titsworth four days after she moved out of the home where she lived with Allen and their two sons, according to court documents. Titsworth and Allen had fought in the week before the shooting and he had tried to convince her to live with him again.
An officer in the area responded to a 911 call. Allen grabbed his gun and struggled with the officer, according to court documents. Allen tried to make the officer shoot himself by squeezing the officer's finger on the trigger, but the officer got control of the gun and shot Allen in the face.
Governor Mary Fallin has denied clemency for Garry Thomas Allen, an Oklahoma death row inmate who killed the mother of his two children in 1986.
On February 9, 2012, Governor Fallin granted a stay of execution of thirty days from February 16, 2012, the date of the scheduled execution of Allen, in order for this office to thoroughly evaluate the recommendation of clemency by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.
The Governor met with the Federal Public Defender's office, the Oklahoma Attorney General's office and the victim's family about this case.
The Executive Order, Fallin states, "Having thoroughly reviewed the arguments and evidence presented in this case, I have determined that clemency should be denied, and that the sentence of death shall be carried out."
The Governor has granted an additional twenty-six day stay thereby scheduling the execution on Thursday, April 12, 2012.
Allen was convicted for killing 42-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth on November 21, 1986, in Oklahoma City.
Read the full Executive Order HERE.
Article 5/4/08
Death row inmate deemed sane
A Pittsburg County jury has determined that a death row inmate is sane enough to be executed, but it's uncertain when the punishment will be carried out.
On a 9 to 3 vote, a panel of 11 men and one woman rejected Garry Thomas Allen's argument that he shouldn't be put to death for the fatal shooting of Lawanna Titsworth because he had become insane while in prison.
An Oklahoma County jury convicted the 52-year-old Allen of first-degree murder for gunning down in November 1986 outside an Oklahoma City daycare center. Titsworth had moved out of the home she shared with Allen and their 2 sons 4 days before her death.
According to court documents, the 2 were arguing when Allen reached into his sock, pulled out a revolver and shot her twice in the chest.
Titsworth got to her feet and ran toward the center, but Allen shoved her down some steps and shot her in the back twice.
An Oklahoma City police officer responding to the call tussled with Allen before shooting him in the face.
Prosecutors are now considering what to do next.
Okla. court dismisses death row inmate's appeal
A condemned Oklahoma inmate who insists he is insane lost a legal challenge Thursday when an appeals court determined there is no procedure under state law to contest a jury's finding that he is sane enough to be executed.
The Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the decision against Garry Thomas Allen, 55, who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the Nov. 21, 1986, shooting death of 42-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth, the mother of Allen's two children.
A district judge in Pittsburg County issued a stay one day before Allen scheduled execution in 2005 after a psychological examination at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary indicated Allen had developed mental problems while confined on death row. The U.S. Constitution forbids the execution of inmates who are insane or mentally incompetent.
According to state legal guidelines, a 12-member jury was impaneled in 2008 to determine Allen's sanity. Jurors rejected Allen's argument that he should not be put to death and decided he was sane enough to be executed.
Allen appealed, but in a six-page decision the appeals court concluded the appeal was not authorized by law and that there is no procedure to appeal a finding that a person facing execution is sane.
The decision, written by Vice Presiding Judge David Lewis of Lawton, says there is no federally mandated right to an appeal in Allen's case and that the state Constitution does not mandate an appeal. In addition, the Legislature has not created a statutory appeal process for sanity proceedings, the appellate court said.
"It is, however, clear what the procedure should be when a person facing execution is found either insane or sane after a jury trial, and that procedure does not include an appeal to this court," the ruling states.
Despite the decision, it remains unclear when Allen's execution will be carried out. Attorney General's Office spokeswoman Dianne Clay said attorneys plan to evaluate the decision before asking the appeals court to schedule a new execution date for Allen.
Allen's attorney, Kristi Christopher of the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
An Oklahoma County jury sentenced Allen to death for shooting Titsworth in the parking lot of the Oklahoma City daycare center. She had moved out of the home she shared with Allen and their two sons four days earlier.
Court documents indicated the two were arguing when Allen reached into his sock, pulled out a revolver and shot Titsworth twice in the chest. Titsworth ran with a center employee toward the building, but Allen pushed the worker away, shoved Titsworth down some steps and shot her twice in the back at close range, records show.
A police officer responding to a 911 call tussled with Allen before shooting him in the face, according to court documents. Allen was hospitalized for about two months for treatment of injuries to his face, left eye and brain.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2…#ixzz1fzv2kDVK
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has set a Feb. 16 execution date for a death row inmate who claims he is insane.
The court set the date Thursday for 55-year-old Garry Thomas Allen. Attorney General Scott Pruitt requested the date on Dec. 28 after a stay of execution for Allen was lifted by a Pittsburg County judge.
Allen was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the Nov. 21, 1986, shooting death of 42-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth. But Allen's 2005 execution was stayed when prison officials reported he had developed mental problems on death row.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor…oma-Execution/
Garry Allen has epilepsy, which has apparently worsened during his time on death row. He has frequent seizures and doctors have said that he is so confused for periods after these seizures that he would not understand thereality of or reason for his impending execution. In 1993, Garry Allen's IQ was measured at 111, above average. By 1999, it had dropped to 75.Doctors have reportedly put this down to his ongoing epileptic seizures combined with head injuries.
After having been presented with such evidence at a clemency hearing on 20 April 2005, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended by four votes to one that Governor Brad Henry commute Garry Allen's death sentence to life imprisonment. An Assistant Attorney General, pursuing the executionfor the state, was quoted as saying that he believed that Garry Allen was faking his mental impairments: "It is easier to act stupider than you are. It's impossible to act smarter than you are. This guy now knows, play up my seizures, play down my IQ."
http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpen…/msg02623.html
Governor considering death-row inmate's case
A death-row inmate originally scheduled to be executed Thursday night will instead be put to death March 17 if the governor's legal team decides against commuting the man's sentence to life in prison.
Gov. Mary Fallin issued a 30-day stay last week to give her legal team more time to consider a 2005 clemency recommendation from the state Pardon and Parole Board for 55-year-old Garry Thomas Allen.
Allen had been scheduled to die for the 1986 murder of the mother of his two children. His attorneys have argued that he was mentally impaired when he killed 42-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth.
Allen's current lawyer, Randy Bauman, declined to comment on the stay Thursday. Currie Ballard, a member of the pardon and parole board, said he could not comment on death-row cases.
http://www.kswo.com/story/16952220/g…w-inmates-case
Convicted killer Garry Thomas Allen will be executed April 12 after Gov. Mary Fallin issued an additional 26-day stay on Tuesday
Allen was set to be executed Saturday after the first 30-day stay expired for his case.
On Feb. 9, Gov. Fallin granted a 30-day stay of execution from the originally scheduled date of Feb. 16, in order to evaluate the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board's recommendation of clemency.
The governor met with the Federal Public Defender's office, the Oklahoma Attorney General's office and the victim's family to review Allen's case, and after examining the arguments and evidence presented, determined that clemency should be denied, and that the sentence of death shall be carried out, according to spokesman Alex Weintz.
Allen was sentenced to death for the 1986 murder of the mother of his two children, 42-year-old Lawanna Gail Titsworth.
Allen's attorneys have argued that he was mentally impaired when he killed Titsworth in Oklahoma City. They said he had been self-medicating for an underlying mental illness, which had gotten worse. A police officer shot Allen in the face during a struggle after Allen shot his wife.
The pardon and parole board voted 4-1 in 2005 to recommend commuting Allen's sentence to life in prison. But before then-Gov. Brad Henry had a chance to act on the recommendation, a Pittsburg County judge issued a stay after a prison psychological exam determined Allen had developed mental problems on death row. The doctor's report noted Allen had dementia caused by seizures, drug abuse and his gunshot wound.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/artic…_0_Convic58229
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In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.[1][2] The Ancient Greek word Hellas (Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was gradually recognized as the name for Greece, from which the word Hellenistic was derived.[3] "Hellenistic" is distinguished from "Hellenic" in that the latter refers to Greece itself, while the former encompasses all ancient territories under Greek influence, in particular the East after the conquests of Alexander the Great.
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After the Macedonian invasion of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC and its disintegration shortly after, the Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom).[4][5] This resulted in an influx of Greek colonists and the export of Greek culture and language to these new realms, spanning as far as modern-day India. These new kingdoms were also influenced by the indigenous cultures, adopting local practices where beneficial, necessary, or convenient. Hellenistic culture thus represents a fusion of the ancient Greek world with that of Western Asian, Northeastern African, and Southwestern Asian.[6] This mixture gave rise to a common Attic-based Greek dialect, known as Koine Greek, which became the lingua franca throughout the ancient world.
During the Hellenistic period, Greek cultural influence and power reached its peak in the Mediterranean and beyond. Prosperity and progress in the arts, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science characterize the era. The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy, Alexandrian poetry, translation efforts such as the Septuagint, and the philosophies of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Pyrrhonism. In science, the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes are exemplary. The religious sphere expanded to include new gods such as the Greco-Egyptian Serapis, eastern deities such as Attis and Cybele, and a syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism in Bactria and Northwest India.
Scholars and historians are divided as to which event signals the end of the Hellenistic era. Proposals include the final conquest of the Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC following the Achaean War, the final defeat of the Ptolemaic Kingdom at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the move by Roman emperor Constantine the Great of the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople in AD 330.[7][8] Angelos Chaniotis ends the Hellenistic period with the death of Hadrian in 138 AD, who integrated the Greeks fully into the Roman Empire, though a range from c. 321 BC to 256 AD may also be given.[9][10]

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Роден е в Луково, тогава в Османската империя, днес Таксиархис, Гърция. В 1905 година заминава за Солун, където се координира с гръцкото посолство и с офицер Д. Какавос за започване на въоръжени действия. Така Йоанис се включва в гръцката въоръжена пропаганда в Македония. В периода 1905 - 1906 година действа в района на Ениджевардарското езеро срещу Апостол войвода. В 1907 година се връща на Халкидики и се включва във въоръжената част на Георгиос Янглис. Йоанис Папапавлу оглавява самостоятелна чета, с която действа в районите на Лъгадина, Кушница и Бешичкото езеро. След принудителното заминаване на Янглис в Атина поради съображения за сигурност, в началото на лятото на 1907 година Йоанис Папапавлу поема ръководството на четата му и си сътрудничи със Стерьос Влахвеис. Папапавлу е убит на 18 юли 1909 година в Луково.

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05/11/2017 - The 62nd Cork Film Festival takes place from November 10-19, showcasing the best in Irish and international film. This year's festival will screen more than 200 films, with the majority being Irish premieres. One of the entrants this year is a short film called Mother & Baby produced by Alice McDowell and Mia Mullarkey. Both Alice and Mia are film producers and Mia is the director and founder of Iska Films. Iska Films is made up of a cross section of award winning directors writers and composers. They work in fiction, documentary, music video and are based in both Dublin and Galway.
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30/10/2017 - Catherine Corless once again is to receive an award for investigative research for her work which led to the discovery of the remains of hundreds of babies at the site of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Catherine will be presented with the one-off award at the NewsBrands Irish Journalism Awards this Thursday in the Mansion House for her investigation into the former institution for unmarried mothers run by the Sisters of Bon Secours.
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23/10/2017 - Tuam Home Survivors Network welcomes the Statement today by Minister Katherine Zappone that she is in possession of the Report from the Group of Experts that were appointed to provide their opinions on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
We note that the Report has also been forwarded to the Attorney General and members of the Cabinet. We look forward to receiving a copy of the Report and the opportunity to provide feedback from the perspective of family members and survivors of the Home.
20/10/2017 - Tuam Home Survivors Network congratulate Catherine Corless on being awarded The Bar of Ireland Human Rights Award 2017. Catherine has exposed that which affects all - the children, whose location remains unclear, are part of us, our families, our communities, our citizenship.


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FreeType-2.5.0 API Reference

Quick retrieval of advance values

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	FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY		FT_Get_Advances

	FT_Get_Advance

This section contains functions to quickly extract advance values without handling glyph outlines, if possible.

FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY

Defined in FT_ADVANCES_H (freetype/ftadvanc.h).

#define FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY  0x20000000UL

A bit-flag to be OR-ed with the ‘flags’ parameter of the FT_Get_Advance and FT_Get_Advances functions.

If set, it indicates that you want these functions to fail if the corresponding hinting mode or font driver doesn't allow for very quick advance computation.

Typically, glyphs which are either unscaled, unhinted, bitmapped, or light-hinted can have their advance width computed very quickly.

Normal and bytecode hinted modes, which require loading, scaling, and hinting of the glyph outline, are extremely slow by comparison.

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FT_Get_Advance

Defined in FT_ADVANCES_H (freetype/ftadvanc.h).

  FT_EXPORT( FT_Error )
  FT_Get_Advance( FT_Face    face,
                  FT_UInt    gindex,
                  FT_Int32   load_flags,
                  FT_Fixed  *padvance );

Retrieve the advance value of a given glyph outline in an FT_Face.

input

face

The source FT_Face handle.

gindex

The glyph index.

load_flags

A set of bit flags similar to those used when calling FT_Load_Glyph, used to determine what kind of advances you need.

output

padvance

The advance value. If scaling is performed (based on the value of ‘load_flags’), the advance value is in 16.16 format. Otherwise, it is in font units.

If FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_LAYOUT is set, this is the vertical advance corresponding to a vertical layout. Otherwise, it is the horizontal advance in a horizontal layout.

return

FreeType error code. 0 means success.

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This function may fail if you use FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY and if the corresponding font backend doesn't have a quick way to retrieve the advances.

A scaled advance is returned in 16.16 format but isn't transformed by the affine transformation specified by FT_Set_Transform.

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FT_Get_Advances

Defined in FT_ADVANCES_H (freetype/ftadvanc.h).

  FT_EXPORT( FT_Error )
  FT_Get_Advances( FT_Face    face,
                   FT_UInt    start,
                   FT_UInt    count,
                   FT_Int32   load_flags,
                   FT_Fixed  *padvances );

Retrieve the advance values of several glyph outlines in an FT_Face.

input

face

The source FT_Face handle.

start

The first glyph index.

count

The number of advance values you want to retrieve.

load_flags

A set of bit flags similar to those used when calling FT_Load_Glyph.

output

padvance

The advance values. This array, to be provided by the caller, must contain at least ‘count’ elements.

If scaling is performed (based on the value of ‘load_flags’), the advance values are in 16.16 format. Otherwise, they are in font units.

If FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_LAYOUT is set, these are the vertical advances corresponding to a vertical layout. Otherwise, they are the horizontal advances in a horizontal layout.

return

FreeType error code. 0 means success.

note

This function may fail if you use FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY and if the corresponding font backend doesn't have a quick way to retrieve the advances.

Scaled advances are returned in 16.16 format but aren't transformed by the affine transformation specified by FT_Set_Transform.

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At this point, we decided the other bathroom was going to be our washing room for the next 4 days. No bath tube or proper shower area (just a moldy hole on floor to keep the water away), no toilet seat in a once-upon-a-time-white-now-yellowish pot, a paper basket way too full of not too greatly scented tissues and a mini chair that was, to say the least, creepy.
Suddenly, showering doesn't feel like such a clean activity!
I would rent this house for it!
Jesus: how can you allow such thing?
Jose decided to join us at the table while eating left-over shrimp cocktail that was lying in the table – one wonders why not using the fridge to keep seafood safe if you have one, right?
Jose was from Cancun but was in town visiting his friend (who was actually away on holidays with his girlfriend). After 5 minutes of chit-chat and bitching about his friend's girlfriend (who doesn't let them do boys night out and cool stuff like that), Jose decided to tell us how a year back he was kidnapped for 47 days in the Mayan Riviera. "I'm only telling you this because you seem like nice guys!".
Imagine you are in this creepy place, don't know this guy from nowhere and he is telling you all of this?
I was freaking out on the inside!
I decided to make some hot chocolate… Jose said it tasted just like his Grandma's. Creepy. Again!
On the second night the vibes were even worse… The more we would look around the more we would find crap, crap and more crap laying all over the place. I can stand the crap. What I couldn't stand was the rat I saw going under the bed. F*ck!!! I crawled on top of Ashray in half a second. He kept on saying it was my imagination (in part to calm me down and in part because he'd rather think there was no rat, I guess…) but there was indeed a 3rd creature in that room. If it wasn't too late at night and we weren't in an area with nothing around, we would have left right then.
Great timing for the lights to go off!..
Ashray had to go around the house and find the switch because Jose was good for nothing. While in the darkness in the room I kept on thinking "damn you rat! don't you dare coming to bed with me! I will kill you, you motherf*cker!!". He didn't.
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Can you see the bite marks? Sh*t!!!
Getting inspired to write this blog post… priceless!
In any case, Airbnb refunded the amount out of their pocket (the 2 days we didn't stay there), so that makes them a good reliable service to use (if there weren't any assholes out there, then it would be safe 100% of the time… but nothing is ever perfect.).
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That way, we can also stay in nicer places next time and make up for the nights described above! Don't you think we deserve it?!
wow. what a nightmare! I don't know how you managed to stay for 2 nights there. that's brave.
Wow… that sounds scary. More reason for me to stick to couchsurfing I guess.
Yes, we do know about Couchsurfing but never tried it… Yet!
Oh my goodness! I just came across this post after noticing your hashtag and link on Twitter. I'm in my first airbnb place right now…thankfully the complete opposite of what you've described! Hope you've had better luck since.
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Do you happen to have a copy of what they advertised it as? That would be really interesting.
Jesus Christ lmfao, this is unbelievable.. Whats worse is, I'm actually from Mexico city and I'm ashamed to see this haha, i am sorry to hear your first experience here wasn't satisfying at all.
Hey Brandon… there's nothing to be ashamed of!
Thanks so much for the offer to stay at your place.. don't be surprised if we get in touch whenever we come back to Mexico! Thanks for reading us!
We had a similar experience in Florence, Italy! Although not as bad, but it was bad! lol.
We have had weeks of unwashed laundry inside the washing machine and bathroom and also hanging on the towel rack. The entire house was dusty and full of DEAD PLANTS! I have had to clean it before we can even sit! The bathroom had NO HOT WATER during Fall! Can you believe it?
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