Legal Opinion
Jermyn v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 21, 2001No. Nos. 98-9012, 98-9013PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
RENDELL, Circuit Judge:
In August of 1985, a Pennsylvania jury convicted Fredric Jermyn of the murder of his' mother, and sentenced him to death. In his habeas petition, Jermyn raises numerous claims, focusing upon his history of mental illness, his trial counsel’s self-professed ineffective representation, and the gulf between the evidence presented at trial and the evidence presented at a hearing conducted in 1995 as part of Jermyn’s state court pursuit of collateral relief (“PCRA”). At his PCRA hearing, several lay and expert witnesses described the horrible physical and…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by151 opinions
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