Legal Opinion
Knighton v. Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 14, 2002No. 00-6442PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Robert Wesley Knighton appeals the denial of habeas relief, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, from two Oklahoma first degree murder convictions and death sentences. A jury convicted Knighton of shooting to death Richard and Virginia Denney during Knighton’s multi-state crime spree. Knighton claims 1) the trial court’s admitting evidence of the many other crimes Knighton committed during his four-day crime spree resulted in a fundamentally unfair trial; 2) prosecutors’ belated disclosure of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), material…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by56 opinions
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- United States v. CrockettCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2006
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