Legal Opinion
Shuman v. Wolff
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided March 24, 1982No. CIV-R-78-118-ECR, CIV-R-78-119-ECRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
Petitioner, Raymond Wallace Shuman, was convicted after a trial by jury in the state court for murder in the first degree in 1958 and sentenced to prison for life without possibility of parole. While serving that sentence he was again convicted of first degree murder in 1975 and sentenced under Nevada Revised Statute § 200.030 in effect from 1975-1977 which provided, inter alia, mandatory capital punishment for individuals under the sentence of life without possibility of parole.
In July, 1978, Shuman simultaneously filed separate petitions for habeas…
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