Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Thigpen
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided November 30, 1990No. Civ. A. 87-C-2046-WPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF OPINION
CLEMON, District Judge.
In this petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson (“petitioner”) urges that her death sentence is constitutionally invalid for four reasons. She maintains that the death sentence was obtained by the unconstitutional use of an earlier crime both as an element of the capital crime and as an aggravating circumstance and that the trial judge impermissibly considered her un-counseled misdemeanor convictions in determining whether she had a significant criminal history. Furthermore, petitioner alleges that…
2Cases cited48 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson v. Tommy Herring, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Ex parte SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 2003
- State v. YoungMissouri Court of Appeals · 1992
- Magwood v. CulliverDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2007
- State v. WilsonNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1993
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