Legal Opinion
Jessie Hoffman v. Bobby Jindal
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2013No. 13-70007PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Defendants Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections; and various state officials (the “state”) appeal a preliminary injunction and stay of execution granted to death-row inmate Christopher Sepulvado. 1 Finding reversible error, we reverse the injunction and the stay.
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In 1993, Sepulvado was convicted and sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of his six-year-old stepson. His conviction and sentence were affirmed. State v. Sepulvado, 672 So.2d 158 (La.), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 934, 117 S.Ct. 310, 136…
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