Legal Opinion
Johnie Cox v. Larry Norris
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1998No. 97-1280PublishedCited by 542 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Arkansas death-row inmate Johnie Cox seeks a certificate of appealability of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus action. Cox has been sentenced to death for the 1989 murders of Marie Sullens, Margaret Brown, and William Brown. We deny the application.
I. BACKGROUND
On November 1, 1989, Cox went to Marie Sullens’s apartment to kill her. He had chosen that date, All Saints Day, because he thought she would go to heaven if she died on that day. Sullens was married to Cox’s grandfather. He later told police that he had killed Sullens because he suspected that she was trying to…
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