Legal Opinion
Carriger v. Stewart
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 17, 1997No. 95-99025PublishedCited by 269 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
INTRODUCTION
Paris Hoyt Carriger was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Robert Shaw in , 1978. Shaw was beaten on the head with a skillet and strangled with his own necktie’ during a robbery of his Phoenix jewelry store. The chief prosecution witness was Robert Dunbar; Carriger’s defense was that Dunbar committed the murder.
After the trial and unsuccessful appeal, Carriger learned of documents in the state’s records, never disclosed before trial, indicating that Dunbar was a known habitual liar accustomed to blaming others for his own crimes. In…
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