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Help Bobby to get back on his feet

Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death in June 1980 for the shooting of a convenience store clerk during a botched robbery.  He is intellectually disabled and has always maintained the shooting was accidental, but his incredible fight for justice took 40 long years to play out. Most of those 40 years were spent on Texas death row in solitary confinement.

Bobby’s crime was never the worst of the worst (for which the death penalty is supposed to be reserved); the standard of representation he received at his trial was truly woeful (one of his lawyers died of alcohol poisoning shortly after the trial and the other was disbarred for life); there was strong evidence never presented to the jury that the shooting was accidental; there were issues of racial bias (including two all-white juries); evidence was destroyed by the State (such as the gun itself) and there were serious issues of prosecutorial misconduct. This was in addition to the overwhelming evidence of Bobby’s intellectual disabilities from a young age and the chronic abuse he suffered as a child.

There were a host of ups and downs over these 40 years, including two execution dates being set (one of which came very close to being carried out), a federal court finding he had wholly inadequate representation at trial; a resentencing hearing with another death sentence imposed and two US Supreme Court rulings on his claims of intellectual disability which changed the law in Texas in relation to the death penalty and the intellectually disabled and which has had a far-reaching impact in death penalty cases in other states as well.

Finally, Bobby was granted relief by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on 6 November 2020 and he was removed from death row.  He was immediately eligible for parole given the length of time he had been incarcerated and amazingly, on June 8th, 2020, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole voted in favor of Bobby's release.

He is now released on parole and trying to rebuild his life, reconnect with family, and readjust to a very different ‘free world’ to the one he left aged 20, all in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

All donations made through this link will go directly to support Bobby get back on his feet. Please note that Gift Aid cannot be claimed on any donations. 

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