Legal Opinion
Skaggs v. Parker
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 18, 2000No. 98-6249PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-Appellant David Leroy Skaggs was convicted by a Kentucky jury of two counts of capital murder, one count of first degree robbery, and one count of first degree burglary. Skaggs was sentenced to death on the murder convictions, twenty years each on the robbery convictions, and twenty years on the burglary conviction. The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Skaggs’s conviction and sentence. See Skaggs v. Commonwealth, 694 S.W.2d 672 (Ky.1985). The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky denied Skaggs’s petition for a writ of…
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