" I am attaching a few documents, not because they are going to change anything, but it gives me some comfort being able to prove that I have always been a solid and law abiding citizen. "
- Julio Mora, October 26, 1999
Spaniard Mora's death sentence commuted to life in new hearing
Spaniard Julio Mora walked off death
row on Tuesday, when his sentence
was reduced to life in prison during
a court hearing in Ft. Lauderdale,
just north of Miami.
Mora, 76, received 3 life sentences
with no chance of parole from Judge
Paul Backman, who had previously sentenced
him to death.
Mora received the original sentence
in 1997 for a double murder, but the
Florida Supreme Court overturned the
punishment based on a legal
technicality and ordered a resentencing.
At the Tuesday hearing's close, prosecutors
refused to ask for the death
penalty due to the defendant's advanced
age and apparently unstable
mental condition, Mora's public defender
Kenneth Malnik told EFE.
District attorney Tim Donnelli refused
to pursue the death penalty
against Mora because the wait on death
row is approximately 14 years,
which means he would be executed at
about the age of 90.
Mora, attired in a prison uniform and
handcuffed to the wheelchair in
which he had arrived at court, listened
impassively to the judge's
ruling.
Earlier, when Backman asked if he had
anything to say before hearing the
sentence, Mora called both judge and
public defender a couple of
"scoundrels" and said he had nothing
to say.
Spain's Consul General in Miami, Javier
Vallaure, who attended the
hearing and whom Mora greeted at session's
end with a smile and a wave,
expressed the Spanish government's
satisfaction for the relatively happy
ending to the prisoner's case, now
that his life has been spared.
The new sentence may be appealed within
the next 30 days, although Malnik
said he will probably not resort to
such a measure.
Mora, though, claims he is innocent
and plans to appeal his 1997 sentence
in federal court.
He was found guilty of the 1994 murder
in Ft. Lauderdale of his former
boss, Clarence Rudolph, and attorney
Karen Starr Marx, who was 4 months
pregnant.
The slayings occurred during a preliminary
hearing in a lawsuit Mora had
filed for having been fired as a computer
professor at a retirement home.
Mora's involvement in "the shootout"
was self-defense, since Rudolph and
a bodyguard were about to shoot him
and because, that same day, he had
been poisoned "as a result of terrorist
actions committed by my former
boss," he told EFE in a jailhouse interview
last year.
Rudolph and "other cronies paid by Islamic
Jihad" had been trying to gas
his apartment, which had made Mora
have to sleep with a gas mask on and
extractor fans blowing, he said.
Mora will either remain in the state
penitentiary in the northern Florida
city of Starke or be transferred to
a jail in the southern part of the
state for medical treatment, Donnelli
said.
(source: Agencia EFE)
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#1
Courts order changing my name, legally, for which I have been demonized, as if I have been using 6 aliases. Actually I was forced to do it to save my life, in great danger, just for doing my duty. I will expound later on. |
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#2
State of Florida's Notary Public's Commision, whether such appointment triggered the shooting incident, for which I'm on death row. |
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#3 - The full transcript of Julio Mora's Affidavit (pages1-22)
Affidavit in support of direct access to the Supreme Court of the United States. It will tell a little about the entire story. I will expound later on. |
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#4
Janet Reno's Letter, the actual U.S. Attorney General, when I had to leave America to save my life for doing my duty as scientific consultant for the State Attorney of Dade County, Florida (Miami), at which time Ms. Reno was not even the State Attorney, whether such appointment happened the following year. I will expound later on. |
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#5
Letter from Dade County Administrator written when I went to Africa, under duress, (see above), at which time I represented the State of Florida in the Metropolitan Dade County Commisioners Office, in matters of public health. |
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#6
Resolution N:74-104 about my job, as member of the Metropolitan Dade County Commisioners Office. I will expound later on. |
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#7
As scientific Consultant for Metropolitan Dade County Florida, I wear many hats. I will expound on later. |
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#8
From the U.S. District Court, where I used to work as a deputy clerk, after an airplane accident incapacitated me, so I could not work in my field. I will expound later on. |
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#9
Letter from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, my first job after the airplane accident. I will expound later on. |
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#10
This is from AARP, signed by my nemisis and would be enemy in less than 30 days, also alleged victim Clarence L. Rudolph, A.K.A. Dr. Rudolph. I will expound later on. |
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#11 (pages 1-2)
Letter from my nemisis Rudolph; please note not only what he had to say about me, but the fact that he pretended to be president of P.I.E., and being a doctor. I will expound later on. |
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#12
Notarized Public document attesting that the alleged victim Rudolph did not have a licence to practice psychology. He represented to be a doctor in clinical psychology, working for AARP in such a capacity. I will expound later on. |
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#13 Document
#13-A
Even though my main degrees are in medicine, cirugie and molecular biology, I also graduated as a civil and electrical engineer, as part of the curriculum to be genetic engineer; main universities, Central De Madrid, now University Complutensis, Madrid Spain; Sorbonne, Paris France, but also from Venezuela, Chile & Peru. 30 years ago you could not say you were a Genetic Engineer since people associated it to Frankenstein (monster builder). |