Legal Opinion

Sivak v. State

Idaho Supreme Court

Decided November 19, 1986No. 15864PublishedCited by 116 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DONALDSON, Chief Justice.

In 1981, Lacey M. Sivak and his co-defendant Randall Bainbridge were convicted of murdering an attendant at a gas station in Garden City, Idaho. He was also convicted of robbery and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. Sivak was sentenced to death. Sivak’s convictions and sentence were affirmed on appeal. State v. Sivak, 105 Idaho 900, 674 P.2d 396 (1983), cert. den., 468 U.S. 1220, 104 S.Ct. 3591, 82 L.Ed.2d 887 (1984).

Sivak then filed his petition for post-conviction relief on September 24, 1984, alleging numerous points of error in proceedings leading to…

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2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  4. Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by116 opinions

  1. State v. BrownIdaho Supreme Court · 1992
  2. State v. Timothy Alan DunlapIdaho Supreme Court · 2013
  3. State v. PizzutoIdaho Supreme Court · 1991
  4. State v. CardIdaho Supreme Court · 1991
  5. Sivak v. HardisonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011

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