Legal Opinion
Matheney v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided November 24, 1997No. 45S00-9207-PD-584PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
Alan L. Matheney filed a petition for post-conviction relief challenging his conviction and death sentence for the murder of his former wife. Judge Richard J. Conroy denied Matheney’s petition, and Matheney appeals. We affirm.
I. Case History
A jury found that in March 1989 Matheney murdered his ex-wife, Lisa Bianco, while on an eight-hour pass from the Correctional Industrial Complex in Pendleton, Indiana, where he was serving a sentence for battery and confinement in connection with a previous assault on-Bianco. Following the jury’s recommendation, the court sentenced…
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