Legal Opinion
Evans v. Birtton
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided June 11, 1979No. Civ. A. 79-0200-HPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HAND, District Judge.
The petitioner, presently incarcerated on death row at Holman Prison Unit under a death sentence imposed by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, brings this action seeking habeas corpus relief from such sentence pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C.A., § 2254. The facts leading up to the conviction of the petitioner have been set out by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in Evans v. State, 361 So.2d 654, 655-62 (Ala.Cr.App.1977), and need not be repeated here. The petitioner was convicted of capital murder by a jury in the Mobile County Circuit Court on April…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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- Baldwin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Bufford v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1980
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