Legal Opinion
Gary Lee Davis v. Executive Director of Department of Corrections, as Head of the Department of Corrections, Ari Zavaras
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 23, 1996No. 95-1285PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Gary Lee Davis appeals from the district court’s denial of his first petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he seeks to overturn his sentence of death. We granted Mr. Davis’s request for a certificate of probable cause and a stay pending appeal. 1 We hold as follows: (1) Mr. Davis was not abandoned by his attorney in the closing argument of the penalty phase of his trial; (2) Mr. Davis suffered no prejudice from his attorney’s failure to pursue and present certain additional mitigating evidence in the penalty phase; (3) the statutory aggravators…
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3Cited by102 opinions
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