Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Mullin
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 10, 2002No. 01-6004PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Cyril Wayne Ellis is a schizophrenic man who went on a ninety-minute killing spree that left three people dead and four wounded in Oklahoma in 1986. Ellis received three death sentences. This case comes to us on appeal from the district court’s denial of Ellis’s petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Ellis raises a host of claims in his habeas petition, most of them related to his mental illness.1 *1203We conclude that the trial court improperly excluded critical evidence of Ellis’s insanity in violation of Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 93 S.Ct. 1038, 35…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Ford v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Cooper v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Weeks v. AngeloneSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Cook v. McKuneCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2003
- Darks v. GibsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2003
- Ellis v. MullinCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002
- CYRIL WAYNE ELLIS, — v. MIKE MULLIN, WARDEN, OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, —Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2003
- Ellis v. MullinCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002