Legal Opinion
Richard Allan Moran v. Salvador Godinez, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 30, 1992No. 91-15609PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
Richard Moran was convicted and sentenced to death by a Nevada state court for three counts of capital murder. After exhausting his state remedies, Moran filed a petition in federal district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied Moran’s petition, and Moran appeals. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.
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Richard Moran was still recovering from a suicide attempt in which he had slashed his wrists and shot himself in the abdomen when he appeared before a Nevada state court in November 1984 charged with three counts of capital murder. At that…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Godinez v. MoranSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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- United States v. HernandezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Miles v. StainerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
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