Legal Opinion
Pickens v. Lockhart
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided June 10, 1982No. PB-C-81-141PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WOODS, District Judge.
FACTS
Petitioner, a 21-year-old black male, was a participant in one of the most heinous crimes in the history of this State. As frankly described by one of petitioner’s witnesses, “[I]f there was ever a case that was made for the death penalty, this was one of those cases.” (Isbell Dep. 27.) After murdering one victim and stealing his car, petitioner and his two companions went to a rural grocery store at Casscoe in Arkansas County at 1:30 p. m. on October 20, 1975. Entering with drawn weapons consisting of a sawed-off shotgun and a .22 pistol, they…
2Cases cited74 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1983
- Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, AdcCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
- Pickens v. TuckerDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1994
- Pickens v. LockhartDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1992
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