Don't Let Reggie Clemons Die!----Reggie Clemons on

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Don't Let Reggie Clemons Die!----Reggie Clemons on Missouri death row: a
case of reasonable doubt


URGENT - PLEASE TAKE AN INTEREST IN THE REGGIE CLEMONS CASE TO PREVENT
ANOTHER UNJUSTIFIED EXECUTION.

Reggie Clemons is a 33 year old African American man sentenced to death in
Missouri after an unfair trial by a jury that was biased in favor of
execution. Reggie's case is filled with many injustices including police
brutality, gross prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective trial counsel.
Reggie who had no criminal record was 19 years old at the time of his
arrest. His interest has been in human rights, mechanics, inventions and
he was in the process of starting a small business.

Reggie was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of two young women who
drowned after plunging from the Chain of Rocks Bridge into the Mississippi
River.

He was among a group of four young men (all teens except one) who
encountered the victims and their cousin, Thomas Cummins on the Chain of
Rocks Bridge. Even though the prosecutors conceded that Reggie neither
pushed the women nor planned the crime, he was convicted on the theory
that he was an accomplice. There was no physical evidence linking Reggie
to the crime for which he received the death penalty, no fingerprints, no
DNA, and no hair or fiber samples.

The police first arrested Thomas Cummins for the crime. Cummins told the
police that he had jumped from the bridge into the Mississippi River. But,
Cummins had no injuries and his hair was clean, dry and neatly combed. The
police and the Coast Guard doubted Cummins's story. The jump from the
bridge to the river was 80 feet, and he would have landed in freezing
water. Cummins failed a lie detector test and told police that the two
women had fallen from the bridge as a result of an altercation that began
after he made a sexual advance on one of them. The police arrested and
charged Cummins with the murder of his cousins.

Reggie was beaten by the police and coerced into making a false statement.
He was denied an attorney. At Reggies arraignment, Judge Michael David
noted that Reggie had suffered physical injury while in custody. The
prosecutorial misconduct in Reggies case was so severe that the prosecutor
was held in criminal contempt of court and fined for his conduct.

A Federal Judge vacated Reggies death sentence in 2002 and noted that Nels
Moss (Prosecutor) actions were abusive and brutish. However, the 8th
Circuit Court overturned the Federal Judges ruling. And Reggie was put
back on death row and now faces an execution date being set by the state
of Missouri.

Marlin Gray, one of the Chain of Rocks codefendants, was executed on
October 27, 2005, at 12:07 AM, by the State of Missouri.

For additional information about Reggies story and how you can help
prevent another unjustified execution, visit his web site at
www.justiceforreggie.com or contact Reggies mother at,

Vera Thomas (Reggies mother)

Justice for Reggie

PO Box 210311

St. Louis, MO 63121

[phone]

[e-mail]

(source: Political Affairs)