Legal Opinion
Blystone v. Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 22, 2011No. 05-9002, 05-9003PublishedCited by 359 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.
In 1984, a jury sentenced Scott Wayne Blystone to death following his convictions in Pennsylvania state court for first-degree murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to commit robbery. After making several unsuccessful attempts to overturn his convictions and sentence in state court, Blystone filed the present petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleging that both the guilt and penalty phases of his trial were infected with federal constitutional error and that…
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