Harrison County District Attorney Reid McCain confirms Clinton Lee Young is in custody again for the 2001 Capital Murder of Doyle Douglas, 41, and Samuel Petrey, 52. Young was arrested on a Harrison County Capital Murder warrant while in Vicksburg, MS., by the Vicksburg Police Department and Warren County Sheriff’s Office.
According to court documents, Young, who was 18 at the time of the murders, and David Page, who was 20, went on a crime spree that involved killing the two men and stealing their cars. Douglas was killed in Harrison County, while Petrey was carjacked and kidnapped in Eastland, Texas, and killed at an oilfield site in Midland County.
The 2003 trial was held in Midland County, with two former Harrison County District Attorneys participating, current County Court at Law Judge Joe Black and Attorney Rick Berry. Black and Berry presented part of the state’s case focused on the events in Harrison County, while the Midland County District Attorney presented the part of the state’s case focused on the events in Midland. According to the Texas Tribune, Page, who received a 30-year prison sentence following a plea deal, testified that Young shot Petrey, but Young maintains his innocence and says he was framed. The Texas Tribune reports Young says he was “sleeping off a methamphetamine high” during the murder. Young was sentenced to death for the crime.
More than 15 years later, in 2019, Midland County District Attorney Laura Nodolf made a significant discovery during a budgeting process. She found that a recently retired assistant prosecutor, Weldon Ralph Petty, had, for more than a decade, worked simultaneously for the Midland County District Attorney’s Office and as a clerk for several of the county’s Elected District Judges. One of those judges was the judge who presided over Young’s 2003 trial. According to the Texas Tribune, Petty wrote several of the prosecution’s motions regarding Young, some of which were then denied by the judge.
The conflict of interest by the Midland prosecutor led to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturning Young’s guilty verdict on September 21, 2021, and ordering a new trial. He was ordered back to the Midland County Jail to await a decision from prosecutors on whether they would pursue a new trial. The same day, Nodolf said she had recused herself from the case and said to avoid the “appearance of a conflict,” would not participate in any other prosecution regarding Young. Petty gave up his license to practice law.
According to the Clinton Young Foundation, a foundation that advocates for the man’s innocence, Young was released from the Midland County Detention Center on January 21, 2022, after the foundation posted his bond. The foundation’s website says it crowdfunded 15% of the $150,000 cash bail.
On Friday night, the foundation released a statement on its Facebook page:
“Clinton Young’s defense lawyers learned late Friday that prosecutors had obtained a second indictment, this time in Harrison county, for the same offense for which Clinton is already facing trial in Midland county. Clinton was arrested while at work on a court-approved job in Mississippi. He has obeyed his bond conditions since his release earlier this year, and his legal team will be addressing the court in the near future about this latest effort by the prosecutors to cause him to go back to jail, even though he spent twenty years unfairly incarcerated.“
The Texas Attorney General’s Office is handling the case, and no further information is available.
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This is horrible! What is wrong with this county?
I am from Sweden and i have been following this case for years and all i can say is that the us system is dangerous and needs to be changed big time. Go Clint.
This is corruption at the highest You need to stop destroying a innocent man’s Prosecutors should be held accountable
Is anyone even remotely surprised? Texas bullshit at its most rotten! The damn state would rather kill a man instead of losing face and admitting the screw up. No wonder the rest of the country thinks we area bunch of inbred baffoons. The states murder machine needs to be STOPPED
He is Innocent both murders put my life on the line
you bitches and sons of bitches dont know what you are talking about, if there were no evidence, the grand jury would not have indicted him,,more importantly, if he were innocent, he would not have apologized to the victims family and his own family after his death sentence and trial! he’s not innocent of anything! he was involved in the kidnapping and murder of two men! only after he got the death penalty did he start making claims of innocence! if he had life without parole, you people wouldnt have a rag up your asses! unless he was laid up with one or more of you bitches having an orgy on the planet vulcan millions of miles away, shut the hell up! he will be tried and he will be back on death row and he will be executed, and this time its going thru!!!!
Omg Cammie why can´t you discuss in a respectful way. Yes he said he was sorry at the trial for his part but that does not mean he shot anyone. Look at the new evidence that supports that. Also see that he dit not get a fair trail. At last i feel for the victums familys. But from both sides the victums sides in general and the offenders sides it is important to have a system that works. I am from Sweden but been in Us for a long while and alot and i see two systems one better than the other… Us needs to take care of this. Specially Texas. But lets discuss in a respectful way
You sound like an absolute twat, shut the f**k up. You kno nothing, your one of these people who believe the police and courts nd er get anything wrong, and if they say this happened well then it has to have happened right? Wrong! They are people just like you and me who get things wrong in life, yes Clinton mite have been there but there is so much evidence to proove he did not shoot any Gun that day, even his co defendent was prooved to be lieing when he said clinton shot that gun, Now do us all a favour and shut the fuck up.
Seriously you have no idea what your talking about.
Innocent on all counts.
Those bastards just cannot own up to there misdoings
Did you even watch the documentary? Idiot.
https://www.2doc.nl/speel~KN_1660481~code-rood-de-doodstraf-code-rood-de-doodstraf~.html
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2022/04/clinton-young.html
@ Cammie, I do not understand your immediate & vulgar rush to judgement? I know nothing of your background or how you were raised or if they ever explained what being prudent is but Proverbs (& b4 you rash judge, I’m not a Bible thumper, but I do believe in doing what’s right, not wrong) 14:15-19 explains it best, [15″The simple believes every word, But the prudent man considers well his steps. 16 A wise man fears and departs from evil, But a fool rages and is self-confident. 17 He who is quick-tempered acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19 The evil will bow before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.” And look we ALL are sinners and fall short everyday and I understand frustration in and with the ‘criminal in-justice system’, and because I live in Texas know very well there are laws still in the statutes here like some cities it’s illegal to go barefoot in public, or how bout in LeFors Tx it’s illegal to sip more than 3 sips of a beer while standing up, or how bout the 24 hr notice law-where those planning to commit a crime are required to give their victims 24 hr written or verbal notice before doing so?? These are just a few, and Legislators know they are there yet instead of amending or dropping it completely, they do nothing while each year approving 500 to 1000 new bills into law, just how long do you think before everything we do , we will be breaking several laws in a 24 hr period, 7 days a week??? Now as for the grand jury and your statement, Texas has 254 counties and I can prove that at least 20 [that I’ve physically had proof in hand, and that multiple parties requested documentation through open records from a specific county] it is NOT the grand jury, it’s the Prosecutor presenting cases to the grand jury and the GJ is no billing for lack of evidence & the Prosecutor is illegally by passing the GJ and creating fake true bills of indictment… it’s about the statistics, the power, the lack of transparency or outside entity checking that all are within the boundaries of the law!! Because this area of government lacks proper checks and balances, after only a few times of stepping outside the boundaries of the law and getting away with it, they run w/it believing they’ll never be caught, and we are allowing them to become a criminal while prosecuting another criminal! It’s unbelievable yet happens everyday. So many of us when given a rule of such power & authority & also given qualified immunity to do these illegal acts. As for Clinton, I can only give my opinion that I don’t believe the law of parties should’ve been created. I’m from Ohio originally, & until coming to Tx nearly 20 yrs ago was for a death penalty until I saw the proof for myself this State has put many innocent lives to death, I mean a person can only die once, and if all the T’s aren’t crossed and the I’s dotted with proof positive verified and re verified I don’t want their innocent blood upon my hands when I reach heaven and the Lord holds me accountable for not speaking up or asking questions!!! As for his apology, you are forced to say you did it and are sorry in nearly every case if you take a plea. I mean if you don’t know the law and you think you can trust a court appointed lawyer here they are considered peace officers and so are technically working both sides of a fence! Also read the Tx lawyers creed, no where does it say they can’t lie, it says they should be honest, ITS 2 DIFFERENT THINGS , like listening and hearing, our brain associates them as same when they’re different. Lawyers write contracts, and so knowing that every word used and where it’s placed can change an entire contract! They count on John Q. Public being stupid to the law and they use every advantage and are involved in the largest ponzi type scheme that’s wayyy bigger than Bernie Madoff! With less quick-tempered tongue lashing and more looking into Tx law like I’ve done you’ll find exactly what I did. No judgement here, just rational truth. Respectfully~Ms. ~D~
i see you all have never heard of capital murder under the law of parties. he is criminally responsible for their deaths, whether he killed them or not, and it is punishable by death dear! go get him state!!!
This is such a waste of time and money. Clinton has more than paid for his part. Leave this man alone! He had already managed to become a productive member of society. This is ridiculous!
ummm,,,,anyone know what a surety bond is? he has a 5,000,000 surety bond for bail. he will be tried in harrison county and midland county for each murder by the attorney general. hes in harrison county jail in marshall and seeking the death penalty in both cases.
America is now seen by the world as the biggest racist country there is, whose system is run by dirty old white rich men who are incontinent and have to eat viagra to do something about their manhood. who imprison poor people guilty or not for no reason so that they think we will see the world as a powerful country when they can do nothing but be rich. in 2022 we can still control those old dirty men?! We can do a lot with drones, if you know what I mean…
very funny priscilla,,,u describing your man hon?
Hoe is het mogelijk, kunnen ze die gast nu niet gerust laten !!!!!!! Aan Clinton wil ik zeggen hou u sterk ondanks deze situatie !!!
No surprise about the state of Texas they are in love with murdering killing people’s. so evil 😈 demonic and sad. I did get a chance to talk with C. Young the little time he was free on Facebook I said to him to stay free and to keep his head up I thought he was completely free I didn’t know he were out on a bond. that’s awful sad 😥 they’ve done Rodney Reed the same way 😢 I hate it too that man thinks they have a right to killed anyone. I.ll keep C. Young and all on Texas row in my prayers 🙏🙌❤💙 lord have mercy
And I’ve seen his c. Young documentary 🙏 it’s so sad to me Damerica is Evi demonic satanic hateful cruel unjust lives breaths for Satanism. look around we are doomed by every other country even by alot other cultures over here. We are hated like hell. old half breathing beat up wrinkle up 100 years old w.man who thinks they are God with blk ancestors money power every thing in there pockets none of what they have Belongs to them they stole it. Them Evi old B are doomed to hell.
Dam its f.up D. Trum.. brought all of us a death sentence over here. that pedo.. destroy America and those evi things in Texas are Kkk. Are just like him no different killing those guys and ladies on the row no matter what color they are it’s evil @ F and dirty and wrong. buy they’ve forgotten big-time God will have the last say so. If God were a human and they knew it them s.o.bs.. would do him the same way they are in love with Satan
now what should i wear ladies? how bout my caroline herrerra 2 piece black mini skirt ensemble, my vera wang pumps, my 6 button black kid gloves and jadore for fragrance. i wanna be the baddest bitch on the block; in the courtroom i mean, total head turner!
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cammie u are full of trash.. get shot or something