SAVE TERRENCE BOWMAN - TAYLOR, NORTH CAROLINA
Who is Terrence Bowman Taylor
Terrence was a college student from Brooklyn, N.Y. with an associate’s degree in Business Administration from Russell Sage College of Albany. He was pursuing a Bachelorette Degree in Computer Programming at B.M.C.C. at the time of his arrest. He says he came to North Carolina for a weekend to visit relatives & friends and never made it back home. He has always maintained his innocence. Read full letter of introduction below.
He says:
Terrence was a college student from Brooklyn, N.Y. with an associate’s degree in Business Administration from Russell Sage College of Albany. He was pursuing a Bachelorette Degree in Computer Programming at B.M.C.C. at the time of his arrest. He says he came to North Carolina for a weekend to visit relatives & friends and never made it back home. He has always maintained his innocence. Read full letter of introduction below.
He says:
I was wrongfully arrested and convicted of allegedly murdering two men who were drug dealers. I did not kill these men and I was wrongfully convicted of these crimes despite there being no physical evidence or a motive in this case to connect me to any wrong doings. I am the only man on death row in this state (North Carolina) that was arrested and convicted solely on the false testimony of one man. (...)
Despite all that I’ve been forced to endure, I am still a man of God & I maintain hope that God will get me through this. My current goals are to regain my freedom & prove my innocence, become a paralegal or an attorney & to become a counselor for our youth so that I can help them avoid the pitfalls of society. I don’t want anyone to be victimized like I was. What happened to me can happen to you!
Case summary
Terrence Bowman, now 42, was convicted of first-degree murder in February of 1997 and sentenced to two separate death penalties, before the Racial Justice Act was enacted. A legal case summary can be found here in this decision from the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1998
Here is also the minimum case summary information that was provided by his supporters:
Terrence Bowman, now 42, was convicted of first-degree murder in February of 1997 and sentenced to two separate death penalties, before the Racial Justice Act was enacted. A legal case summary can be found here in this decision from the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1998
Here is also the minimum case summary information that was provided by his supporters:
More information in relation to Venice Taylor: Offender profile information here
Terrance Bowman-Taylor locked up but innocent
Terrance Bowman-Taylor is currently on death row in North Carolina for crimes he did not commit. He was a college student from New York who came to North Carolina to visit his relatives and some friends and never made it back home. He was wrongfully arrested and convicted of allegedly causing the deaths of two men . They died from multiple gunshot wounds and were reported to have been together when they were allegedly murdered at the same time in one single incident.
Terrance did not cause the deaths of these men. He was wrongfully arrested, unfairly tried and illegally convicted of these crimes solely on the false testimony of a man named Venice Taylor. Venice Taylor was detained and questioned as the initial suspect in this case. He is a convicted felon who has a very extensive criminal history that includes several felony convictions including repeated charges for giving false information to the police and evading, eluding and resisting arrest. When he was detained and questioned as the Initial suspect in this case, he had numerous pending and outstanding warrants out for his arrest. However, he was never arrested for any of those outstanding warrants while he was in police custody and was driven home by a police officer after he gave the police a false statement implicating Terrance in these crimes.
Venice Taylor a known drug dealer and drug user who was a bitter rival of the decedents in this case in the drug trade. Venice Taylor has been arrested and/or convicted more than 17 times since he falsely testified against Terrance and he is still allowed to roam the streets and break the law while Terrance sits wrongfully on death row. Venice Taylor suffers from memory loss and hallucinations. He lacks the ability to tell the truth and experiences hearing evil and violent sounds and voices that tell him to do violent things. He has been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and was allowed to testify falsely against Terrance. His trial testimony was completely inconsistent with the prior false statement that he gave to the police on the day in which these crimes were allegedly committed. Both his trial testimony and his prior inconsistent statement were contradicted and unsupported by the actual facts in this case.
Terrance should have never been arrested and convicted based solely on false testimony and statement of this unreliable, incompetent criminal. Despite the fact that Venice Taylor stated to the police that he was allegedly with Terrance and three other men when he allegedly witnessed these crimes being committed. Terrance Bowman-Taylor does not have any co-defendants. These other three men were questioned by the police and they verified that these crimes were never committed by Terrance as did several other potential witnesses that were interviewed by the police.
Terrance was the only man arrested, charged and tried for these crimes.
No one else was or has been charged in connection with this case.
There is no physical and/or scientific evidence that connects Terrance to these crimes.
Where his case stands
Terrence has exhausted all his appeals, with his case not being picked up by the US Supreme Court. Today he says he is in need of serious legal support and caselaw information.
He says:
Because I don't have any attorneys working on my case doesn't mean I'm going to sit here & not help myself. (...) I'm being denied medical care for spinal injuries (...). So, I'm fighting two different battles at one time.
His case is one which relates to the North Carolina Racial Act which allows capital defendants to challenge their death sentences if they successfully prove that race was a significant factor in decisions to seek or impose the death penalty. It includes a protection against discrimination in jury selection in capital cases.
Terrence has exhausted all his appeals, with his case not being picked up by the US Supreme Court. Today he says he is in need of serious legal support and caselaw information.
He says:
Because I don't have any attorneys working on my case doesn't mean I'm going to sit here & not help myself. (...) I'm being denied medical care for spinal injuries (...). So, I'm fighting two different battles at one time.
His case is one which relates to the North Carolina Racial Act which allows capital defendants to challenge their death sentences if they successfully prove that race was a significant factor in decisions to seek or impose the death penalty. It includes a protection against discrimination in jury selection in capital cases.
In one of his appeal (filed 1998), Terrence contended that African-Americans in the trial court jury pool were underrepresented. He provided data to claim there was a “16.17 percent absolute disparity between the percentage of African-Americans in the general population and their percentage in the venire,” according to the case obtained by The Free Press.In The State of North Carolina v. Terrence Dion Bowman, the state disagreed with his calculations. The court determined blacks accounted for 24.2 percent of the jury pool, therefore creating a 14.8 percent disparity.The jury could not conclude the disparity percentage unfair or unreasonable, with the most recent census during the time indicating Lenoir County’s population was nearly 40 percent black. Bowman used the Duren Test, a three-part test to determine disproportionate representation of a defendant’s race, to fight his claim.
Read public legal decision here STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. TERRENCE DION BOWMAN
Read public legal decision here STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. TERRENCE DION BOWMAN
What his supporters say
Fatima says:
The attorneys won't even respond to Terrance's letters. They have boxes full of documents regarding Terrance case that they haven't even open. North Carolina no longer have law library's; they were supposed to have been replaced with North Carolina Prison Legal Services who refuses to help Terrance. I've contacted them on many occasions & they stated they would help but turned around & refused.Things aren’t looking good for Terrance, the clock is ticking; his health continues to deteriorate.
Fatima says:
The attorneys won't even respond to Terrance's letters. They have boxes full of documents regarding Terrance case that they haven't even open. North Carolina no longer have law library's; they were supposed to have been replaced with North Carolina Prison Legal Services who refuses to help Terrance. I've contacted them on many occasions & they stated they would help but turned around & refused.Things aren’t looking good for Terrance, the clock is ticking; his health continues to deteriorate.
Find out more
About Terrence Bowman Taylor
. READ Article: Racial Act Repealed, Kinston, June 2013
. READ Blog about his hope in regards to the North Carolina Racial Act here
. Legal decision: State of North Carolina vs Terrence Dion Bowman
About the North Carolina Justice Act:
. Read here: Judge Finds Racial Bias in Three More Death Penalty Cases in North Carolina Under State Racial Justice Act, ACLU
. Article NY Times: Bias law used to move a man off death row, April 2012. Michigan law school study: Introduction here (1p) and Study here
. Recent Court decision (200p) here
. ACLU video below
About Terrence Bowman Taylor
. READ Article: Racial Act Repealed, Kinston, June 2013
. READ Blog about his hope in regards to the North Carolina Racial Act here
. Legal decision: State of North Carolina vs Terrence Dion Bowman
About the North Carolina Justice Act:
. Read here: Judge Finds Racial Bias in Three More Death Penalty Cases in North Carolina Under State Racial Justice Act, ACLU
. Article NY Times: Bias law used to move a man off death row, April 2012. Michigan law school study: Introduction here (1p) and Study here
. Recent Court decision (200p) here
. ACLU video below
To contact Terrence Bowman Taylor
MR TERRENCE TAYLOR 0539901
1300 Western Blvd
Raleigh North Carolina
27606 USA
MR TERRENCE TAYLOR 0539901
1300 Western Blvd
Raleigh North Carolina
27606 USA
