 1963 - 2008 (44 years)
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| Name |
Scott Ray Stahl [1, 2] |
| Birth |
25 Jul 1963 [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1994 |
Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA  [1] |
| Age: 31 |
| Death |
30 Mar 2008 |
Arizona, USA [2] |
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| Person ID |
I31372 |
tng Genealogy |
| Father |
William Henry Stahl, b. 7 Sep 1935, Tiffin, Seneca, Ohio, USA d. 15 Jun 2013, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, USA (Age 77 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Letha Dale Dickenson, b. 22 Apr 1941, Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, USA d. 8 Jul 2006, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA (Age 65 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Jun 1964 |
Manatee, Florida, USA [3] |
| Family ID |
F10882 |
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 | Residence - Age: 31 - 1994 - Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA |
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 | Death - 30 Mar 2008 - Arizona, USA |
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- Should A Prison Inmate Get A Kidney Transplant?
By Morgan Loew, Phoenix
Scott Ray Stahl, inmate number 128-150, looks like any other inmate, but Stahl is dying. He's trying to save his own life by asking you, the taxpayer, to pay for a kidney transplant.
Letha Jones says, "The man's dying and there's nothing I can do."
Letha Jones is Stahl's mother. She's trying to help her son, but she doesn't get much sympathy. You see, Stahl is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. Ten years ago, Stahl was implicated in a fatal shooting in Sierra Vista.
Dawn Struse says, "He was disguised. He had black paint on his face."
None of the witnesses could place Stahl at the crime scene, but he was convicted under Arizona's felony murder law. He still claims he's innocent, but one of the shooting survivors believes he's holding back information about who else was involved and should not be given special treatment until he talks.
Struse says, "Just say that he wasn't the shooter. He knows who it was. He's admitted he knows who it was." Struse says, "He's outright refused to help."
That may seal Stahl's fate in the minds of many.
State Representative Russell Pearce says, "This guy's a convicted murderer. I'm not willing to spend my tax dollars to keep him alive." Pearce says the problem he has with inmates receiving organ transplants is there are thousands of sick people outside prison walls waiting for the same organs.
Pearce says, "If you had all the extra kidneys in the world.. and there was no waiting list.. that would be a different debate then. That's not the case."
Now.. if you think you've made up your mind- hold on. There's something else you should know. It may be the state's fault Stahl's kidneys failed to begin with. While he was in prison five years ago, Stahl became ill. His gall bladder was removed and medical records his mother provided show he was prescribed large doses of ibuprofen, a pain medication scientifically linked to renal failure.
Shortly afterward, Stahl's kidneys failed.
"(Reporter) Do you think the ibuprofen they were prescribing to him had something to do with his kidneys failing?"
"(Jones) Yes I do."
Jones says, "It'll shut your kidneys down. It can cause liver failure. It's all on the back of the directions on the bottle that you get across the counter."
Dawn Wyland says, "Just because a person is convicted doesn't mean they have been convicted to a death sentence." Dawn Wyland from the ACLU of Arizona says the Constitution requires the state to provide inmates with proper medical care. She says this case goes one step further.
Wyland says, "If a man is in prison and he has been given proper medical care or medical care by the state and that's the reason he needs a transplant, I don't see how you could think of it any other way than the state should pay for it."
Stahl is currently on an organ donor waiting list. There are no Department of Corrections policies that prohibit inmates from receiving transplants, but we could find no cases in at least the last 15 years, where an Arizona inmate has received a transplant.
Jones says, "The sad part of it is, it's not just my son. But there's more than him in there that are sick, that need transplants - and not everybody in prison is guilty."
According to the Department of Corrections, kidney dialysis for an inmate costs about $100,000 every year. The transplant plus ongoing medications would be $250,000. A hospital spokesperson said the transplant pays for itself in 2 to 3 years and financially is more cost effective.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=4186951
A Fair Trial?
By Kris Pickel , News 13
The issue isn't guilt or innocence -- it's did he get a fair trial? That's what some are still asking 6 years after a man was sentenced to life in prison.
He's now asking for a pardon because of a medical condition he claims was caused by the prison.
"He was disguised and he had black paint on his face and even though I was looking at him I was concerned with the gun."
Dawn Struse can say without doubt, she is a survivor. Eight years ago someone tried to kill her. In 1995 a gunman walked into the 3 Generations Hair Salon in Sierra Vista and fired 21 shots.
Three women were hit -- one died. Struse was shot twice.
"As to the actual shooter, I couldn't tell you because I really couldn't identify him," Struse says.
Scott Stahl was arrested and convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
"Getting a fair trial means having good counsel," says Stanton Bloom, one of the most prominent private defense attorneys in Southern Arizona.
He is not the lawyer who represented Stahl in his murder trial. However, Bloom was paid to review the trial transcripts and evidence, a nd believes Stahl did not get a fair trial.
The reason -- his lawyer.
"The guy from start to finish did not do a good job," Bloom says. "He was asleep at the switch here a lot."
Bloom believes there was very little evidence to convict Stahl, and that it was his own defense attorney who made him look bad during trial.
"They dirty this guy up unnecessarily," Bloom says. "There was no reason to let this stuff come in."
Bloom did an interview with Stahl's attorney following the trial. In it the attorney admits, "some of these things I missed may help him obviously."
In fact, it was Stahl's own attorney who brought in testimony about his drug use, criminal background, domestic violence, even food stamp fraud -- much of the evidence the prosecution would not have been allowed to bring into trial.
"Unless he got up there and says, 'I'm a thoughtful and honest person,' and get people to bring in opinions on that. He didn't do that," Bloom says.
"The reason we introduced a lot of these negatives is to explain who Scott Stahl was," says I van Abrams, the private lawyer who defended Stahl -- and now defends his defense.
"For each negative there was a positive," Abrams says. "That's what were trying to bring out."
We asked, isn't it better to not make your client look as bad as Stahl looked during this trial?
"I would suggest he looked like a victim himself," Abrams said.
What about a motive for the shootings that happened 8 years ago? The state built its case around Stahl's employer at the time, Charles Dipple. The state said Dipple wanted his wife dead and hired Stahl to kill her. But Dipple was never called to testify at Stahl's trial to try to disprove the motive.
"'I didn't hire anybody to kill my wife.' At least you would have got that testimony," Bloom says. "I don't know how convincing he would have been. At least you would have got that testimony."
One of the most perplexing aspects of the case: Bloom says Abrams did not argue for even the possibility of parole, when Stahl was sentenced to life in prison.
"Any time there is the possibility you can get a lesser sentence for a defendant that's the time you want to make an argument on his or her behalf. It wasn't done. He did nothing really."
Scott Stahl has been in prison for almost 8 years and is now suffering from kidney failure. He claims overmedication by the prison created his medical condition..
"I got pneumonia in '99 and when I got out of the hospital the Department of Correction medical prescribed me 800mg of Ibuprofen three times a day for 8 1/2 months," Stahl says. "Shortly after my kidneys shut down."
Stahl is asking for a pardon to undergo a kidney transplant. The state does allow inmates to undergo transplants in prison, but approval for the operation is made on a case by case basis.
The Department of Corrections would not discuss Stahl's case with us, other than to say it's being looked into. Stahl says a transplant is a matter of life or death.
"T his is an agonizing existence. There is no quality of life whatsoever. I would prefer the state give me the death penalty."
Although Dawn Struse can not positively identify Stahl as the man who shot her. She believes if he wasn't the gunman, he knows who was. And sick or not, he belongs behind bars.
"I don't think he should get out of jail. I think he should stay in and I think he should pay for what he did," Struse says. "I think he should pay for what he knows."
Stahl's case was appealed on ineffective council. But a court determined allowing hearsay was a tactical maneuver by his lawyer, a nd introducing negative evidence did not necessary hurt Stahl's case.
Stahl's case went before the Executive Clemency Board, but it decided not to reccomend a pardon.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=1515031
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Scott-Stahl/389097912
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Record for Scott R Stahl
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Record for Scott Ray Stahl
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ssdi&h=82179924&indiv=try
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Volume: 2230; Certificate: 19921
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[ View marriage certificate]
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=flmarriageindex&h=2460364&indiv=try
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