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groups have pressed for a new trial
for Halprin, 41, who appealed to
the U.S. Supreme Court Friday.
Dallas attorneys Stuart
Blaugrand and Marc Stanley filed
a 13-page brief with the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals last
month. The brief was signed by
AJC, more than 100 Texas Jewish
lawyers, the Union for Reform
Judaism, the Central Conference
of American Rabbis and Men of
Reform Judaism.
The AJC Dallas Office was
instrumental in securing the
signatures from the Jewish
attorneys across the state.
“I was so proud of the 108
Texas Jewish lawyers who —
along with the American Jewish
Committee, the Union for
Reform Judaism, the Central
Conference of American Rabbis,
and Men of Reform Judaism —
stood up against this injustice.
The caliber of this group helped
raise the urgency and visibility
of Halprin’s appeal,” said
Stanley.
“This case demonstrates the
importance of AJC’s work in
confronting anti-Semitism and
all forms of bigotry in order to
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who responded to a
robbery they committed
at an Oshman’s
Sporting Goods store on
Christmas Eve. Four of
them have already been
executed.
In May, Halprin said Randy Halprin
an appeal that the
judge who sentenced him in 2003,
Vickers Cunningham, referred
to him using anti-Semitic slurs,
including “f****n’ Jew” and
“g*****n k**e.”
The Dallas Morning
News reported last year that
Cunningham, who is white,
rewarded his children with a
trust if they married someone
who is white, Christian and of
safeguard our freedoms and
ensure equal justice for all,”
said Blaugrand, who is also a
Dallas AJC board member. “I feel
privileged to have joined with so
many distinguished colleagues
in helping Randy Halprin secure
a hearing to prove judicial bias
resulted in the denial of his due
process rights because a trial
conducted before a racist judge
who boasts of his bigotry is no trial
at all. If Vickers Cunningham is
a racist as alleged, Randy must
receive a new trial presided over
by an impartial judge.”
Before Friday’s
Marc Rylander, director of
communications for Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton,
told JNS, “It is our policy
never to comment on litigation
strategy in an ongoing matter,
particularly a criminal case. Our
office has filed publicly available
documents with the relevant
courts detailing at length why the
sentence the jury imposed in this
case was lawful and appropriate,
so we will let those filings speak
for themselves.”
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the opposite sex.
The court denied
Halprin’s appeal last
month.
On Thursday, Halprin
appealed to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, a Dallas
County trial court will
determine if the claims against
Cunningham warrant a new trial
for Halprin.
At the time of his escape,
Halprin was serving a 30-year
prison term for beating and
injuring a child. He does not
deny being at the scene when
police officer Aubrey Hawkins
was murdered in December 2000,
but says he did not fire his gun.
Members from the Jewish
community and other faith
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A Jewish death row inmate
in Texas who says his judge was
anti-Semitic was granted a stay of
execution by the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals.
The stay order was issued
Friday, Oct. 4.
Randy Halprin, 41, had been
set to be executed Oct. 10. He
was part of the “Texas 7” group
of prisoners who escaped from
the John B. Connally Unit
near Kenedy in 2000 and were
convicted and sentenced to death
for the murder of a police officer
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