The attorney of a South Carolina Death Ro prisoner whose execution is adjacent is arguing a final-khai that his customer is partially executed because of his faith is unable to be executed that he is a sovereign citizen.
Steven Biksbi and his father, Arthur Biksbi led a 12 -hour gun battle with law enforcement at Ebville, South Carolina, South Carolina on 8 December 2003, resulting in two police officers.
The deadlock, during which thousands of rounds were exchanged between Bixby and the police, from an attempt by the South Carolina Department of Transportation, which was to widen a highway using an ease on the soldie wealth. Bixbys claimed that ease was coined, or was irrelevant in any case.
The family, including Bixby’s mother Rita, was known for her sovereign citizens beliefs.
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Charles Gros talks to his customer, Steven Biksbi, as the convicted verdict is read on Bixby trial, Sunday, 18 February 2007 in Abhiville, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Sefton iPock, Pool)
The FBI labels sovereign citizens as extremists and portrays them as people who believe that they are sovereign from the United States government and thus do not need to respond to government officials including law enforcement, courts, tax institutions and others. In the best form, they are a relaxed affiliated group that has equal belief, but most sovereign citizens act on their own without guiding a central organization.
He is also known for filing cases against government officials, a feature embodied by Rita Biksbi, who filed failed cases against state institutions.
Following the deadlock, Steven Bixby was accused of two murder cases and a count of a criminal conspiracy, and was sentenced to death in February 2007. Arthur and Rita Biksbi were also accused in the attack, and both were sentenced to life in jail.
After finishing his appeal by 2010, the days of Biksbi were counted. However, the state suffered a lack of fatal injection drugs, and prevented all execution indefinitely. 2021 State law allowed the death sentence to be resumed through firing squad or electrocution. After years of litigation, the state carried out its first death row prisoner in 13 years, opened the door for execution of Biksbi.
Biksbi was executed last May, until a judge postponed its execution date to determine whether he was mentally capable.
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Now, his lawyers say that they cannot be executed as they do not complete the state’s two-dimensional examinations to declare merit for execution.
The first prong echoes about the only qualification test of the US Supreme Court: Does anyone understand that they are going to be executed, and why.
The South Carolina is a second prong in the Supreme Court, which is established in the 1993 case Singleton vs. State: Is someone able to interact with his lawyer rationally. Biksbi lawyers are arguing that due to his enthusiastic belief in sovereign citizenship and his praise and loyalty to his parents, he was really unable to understand that he had to face death penalty and could not interact with his lawyers rationally.
Steven Biksbi spoke to the media during his prosecution on December 9, 2003, as law enforcement officers see in Greenwood, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Mary N Chastain)
Emeritus Michael Maltsner, Professor of Law at Northeastern University, commented on the 2021 Derael Brooks case, and spoke with Fox News Digital about the case of Biksbi. Brooks claimed to be a sovereign citizen and represented themselves in court after demolishing innocent people and killing six in a Christmas parade in Wukesh, Visconsin. He was sentenced to six life conditions and 700 years of prison for his crimes.
“Well, first, just because you have a crazy belief, it does not act as a defense for a crime or as an execution or an execution under the Supreme Court standard,” said Meltsner. “The only method that could be relevant about hearing, if it was relevant to the legal standard for madness or was a legal standard for having a serious mental state that could not be executed.”
But Meltsner said that the South Carolina may be wide standard for execution compared to the standards set by the US Supreme Court in the Supreme Court.
“Of course, South Carolina can decide that the state may have ‘higher’ or ‘better’ standard than the constitutional one,” he said. “South Carolina can decide the courts, well, he cannot communicate with his lawyer and therefore we are not going to execute it.”
South Carolina Supreme Court (Through Tracy Glontz/State/Tribune News Service Getty Image)
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As whether the sovereign citizenship of Biksbi makes him crazy, and whether this argument will be in court, Meltsner does not know.
“Well, this is a factual case,” he said. “It can be a terrible disability, and this man seems quite crazy. It can also be at the other end of continuity. It can be malicious and manipulated. But as a normal thing, you can argue on any shame in court. It is to the courts to decide what it means.”
Bixby still states that he was working in self -defense and defense of his property.
Fox News reached the lawyers of Digital Biksbi.
Biksbi Standoff
Biksbey was a long -time sovereign citizen who had been a permanent litigator against the kingdom living in the New Hampshire, where Arthur was arrested for ignoring the court order to pay $ 850 for more than three years after the verdict against him.
Steven Biksbi left New Hampshire for South Carolina in the 1990s, when a warrant for her arrest was issued to leave a license without a license and meetings with their parole officials. His mother and father chased their house shortly after the threat of criminal to not pay taxes.
The FBI defines “sovereign citizens” as extremists. (Getty image)
The South Carolina land dispute began in the early 2000s, when the state informed Biksbis that his property had an ease that the state was sent by the previous owner of the land, allowing the state to use 20 feet on the edge of the property, if the state was selected to widen the highway 72.
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In 2003, the state was starting a wide process and the land surveyors were making a mark on the property to start a job, causing tension between state officials and Bixes.
The morning of December 8, 2003, a surveyor called the police on Steven and Arthur Biksbi to threaten him.
Abville County Sheriff SGT. Danny Wilson responded to the call and was immediately shot by Bixby. He was dragged inside the biksbi house, shook with his handcuffs, and died some time during a 14 -hour deadlock.
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State Constable Doni Ozets replied after communication with Wilson. That too, the lawn in front of the property was immediately shot dead by Biksbi.
After a 14-hour gunfight with SWAT teams and law enforcement from around the state, Steven and Arthur Bixby were finally arrested.
