Legal Opinion
Otey v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Decided May 29, 1992No. S-91-762PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Per curiam
For reasons hereinafter set forth, a district court order enjoining the enforcement of Harold Lamont Otey’s death sentence and requiring a new commutation hearing before the Nebraska Board of Pardons is reversed, and the cause is remanded to the district court with directions to dismiss Otey’s petition.
Otey’s petition to stay his execution was filed in the district court for Lancaster County after the Nebraska Board of Pardons refused to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.
Enjoined by the district court from carrying out Otey’s death sentence were the State of Nebraska; the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Kentucky Department of Corrections v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Connecticut Board of Pardons v. DumschatSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Parker v. CorrothersCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
- State Ex Rel. Spire v. ConwayNebraska Supreme Court · 1991
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Harold Lamont Otey v. Frank X. Hopkins, Warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional ComplexCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- State v. JoubertNebraska Supreme Court · 1994
- Clarence Victor v. Frank X. HopkinsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Slack Nursing Home, Inc. v. Department of Social ServicesNebraska Supreme Court · 1995
- State v. PhilippsNebraska Supreme Court · 1994
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