Legal Opinion
Vernon Kills on Top v. State
Montana Supreme Court
Decided November 25, 1996No. 94-183PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trieweiler
The petitioner, Vernon Kills On Top, was convicted of robbery, aggravated kidnapping, and deliberate homicide following trial by jury in the District Court for the Sixteenth Judicial District in Custer County on August 6,1988. On September 8,1988, he was sentenced to forty years in the Montana State Prison for robbery, and death for the kidnapping and homicide convictions. His conviction Was appealed to this Court and affirmed in State v. Vernon Kills On Top (1990), 243 Mont. 56, 793 P.2d 1273, cert. denied (1991), 501 U.S. 1259, 111 S.Ct. 2910, 115 L.Ed.2d 1073.
On February 19, 1992, the…
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