Legal Opinion
Elizabeth Diane Downs v. Sonia Hoyt
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 15, 2000No. 99-35266PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge:
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Petitioner Elizabeth Diane Downs was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and assault in the Lane County Circuit Court in Oregon in 1984. The jury found that she fatally shot one of her children, Cheryl, then age seven, and seriously wounded the other two, Christie and Danny, then ages eight and three. Christie testified at trial that she saw her mother open the trunk of her car and then shoot each of the three children. Ballistics experts testified that bullets taken from Downs’s home had extractor marks identical to…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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