Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Lagos, Nigeria · 2016

Chukwuemeka Ezeugo ('Rev. King'): murder and attempted-murder convictions affirmed

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Appellate history

2016-02-26

The final appeal was dismissed and the murder and attempted-murder convictions were affirmed.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

general overseer, founder and spiritual father of congregants

Organization

Christian Praying Assembly

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The cited record identifies absolute pastoral authority, religious punishment for alleged immorality, father-child hierarchy within the congregation, and physical discipline as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is general overseer and founder and spiritual father of congregants.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2007-01-11 · criminal judgment and sentence

High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja, Nigeria. Ezeugo was convicted of murdering one church member and attempting to murder five others. He received a death sentence for murder and twenty years on each attempted-murder count.
2013-02-01 · criminal appeal

Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, Nigeria. The court affirmed the convictions and sentences.
2016-02-26 · final appeal

Supreme Court of Nigeria. The court unanimously dismissed the appeal and affirmed the judgment below.

Documented coercion mechanisms

absolute pastoral authority
religious punishment for alleged immorality
father-child hierarchy within the congregation
physical discipline

Cited record

Sources

court appellate judgment Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chukwuemeka Ezeuko (alias Dr. Rev. King) v. State, SC.200/2013, [2016] NGSC 95 (Feb. 25, 2016).: The appellate judgment records Ezeugo's position as general overseer, the spiritual father-child relationship with the victims, punishment for alleged immoral behavior, the murder and attempted-murder counts and affirmance of the convictions.
high quality court reporting appellate corroboration Punch, 'Rev. King must die by hanging, Supreme Court orders' (Feb. 27, 2016).: Contemporaneous court reporting records the unanimous Supreme Court disposition, the trial and intermediate appeal, and the religious-discipline context.

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Source and tier basis: https://nigerialii.org/akn/ng/judgment/ngsc/2016/95/eng%402016-02-25 Corpus classification: court; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment.
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Source and tier basis: https://punchng.com/rev-king-must-die-by-hanging-supreme-court-orders/ Corpus classification: high-quality-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-corroboration. SHA-256 02938f6b41fcb7afba4405c517f9dbf74dd60cd52267d009cf52db43490b3678
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