Legal Opinion
Ruiz v. Norris
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided August 2, 1994No. PB-C-89-395PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
EISELE, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
While this habeas proceeding has now been pending for five years, the underlying case is much older. As noted by the Arkansas Supreme Court in its last decision, “this capital murder case has followed a long and torturous path.”
Early in 1977, petitioners Ruiz and Denton were imprisoned in the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlister — Ruiz for armed robbery and Denton for murder. On June 23, 1977, they disappeared from a work crew.' They were seen near the town of Magazine in Logan County, Arkansas on the morning of June 29, in a car with…
2Cases cited165 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Russell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
- State v. GalesNebraska Court of Appeals · 2005
- Paul Ruiz v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Earl Van Denton v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Gardner v. NorrisDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1996
- Chad Kitchell v. State of ArkansasSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2020
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