A member of the “Texas Seven” received the stay after the judge was accused of using racist and anti-Semitic language about the defendants.
For more than 15 years on death row, Randy Halprin filed challenge after challenge to his sentence. Finally, Halprin’s lawyers had found several people who said that the judge who oversaw their client’s murder conviction had regularly used racist language and referred to Halprin, who is Jewish, using anti-Semitic slurs.
The lawyers had been spurred to investigate the judge, Vickers Cunningham, by an explosive report in The Dallas Morning News last year saying that he had promised to reward his children if they married a white, Christian person of the opposite sex. The report sank the judge’s campaign for Dallas County commissioner.
Now, a trial court will determine whether Judge Cunningham’s reported views and behavior warrant a new trial for Mr. Halprin.
Read more at NY TIMES.
{Matzav.com}
Yes, it was reported in an earlier story here some of Judge Cunningham’s racist and Sinas Yisroel slurs. HOWEVER, that he told his children “that he had promised to reward (them) if they married a white, Christian person of the opposite gender”:
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS EVEN REMOTELY WRONG AND “RACIST” ABOUT THAT???????
ON THE CONTRARY, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT HE SHOULD TELL HIS CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
(As his children are obviously Christians, other Christians are obviously whom they should marry. Of course, if, I repeat, IF, any one of them were to decide to convert to Judaism, then, he would realize that he would have to respect that — now being Jewish — that son or daughter now needs to marry a spouse who is Jewish.)
That he is clearly stipulated “of the opposite sex,” glaringly shows that he is AGAINST Toeiva (so-called) “marriage.”
THAT IS CERTAINLY REALLY GREAT AND MOST WONDERFULLY FANTASTIC!!
HE MOST ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE GIVEN A BIG HUGE MEDAL FOR THAT!!