Legal Opinion
Jones v. Smith
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided June 1, 1988No. Civ. A. S81-0109(R)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., District Judge.
This cause is before this Court on a Petition for Entry of a Writ of Habeas Corpus, a Temporary Restraining Order and/or Injunctive Relief and for Declaratory Judgment and/or Other Relief.
On March 19, 1975, Larry Jones (hereinafter referred to as the Petitioner) was found guilty of capital murder 1 for participating in the killing of Arthur Weinberger on December 2, 1974, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Today, over thirteen years later, Petitioner’s fate, for good or bad, remains undetermined; 2 and hopefully, in light of this Court’s decision…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Cabana v. BullockSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1980
- Scott v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Arthur W. Tifford v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Ballenger v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
- Reddix v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
- Willie Albert Smith v. Eddie Lucas, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1993
- Carzell Moore v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
- Smith v. LucasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
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