Legal Opinion
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. Timothy Filson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 1, 2017No. 13-17326, 17-15793, 17-71465PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:
On September 28, 1979, Robert Ybarra kidnapped, beat,' and sexually assaulted sixteen-year-old Nancy Griffith in rural White Pine County, Nevada. He then doused her in gasoline, set her on fire, and left her to die a slow and agonizing death. At trial, he pled not guilty by reason of insanity. But the jury rejected his defense, found him guilty, and determined that his crime was sufficiently aggravated to warrant the death penalty.
There is no question that Ybarra’s crime falls within the “narrow category of the most serious crimes” that would ordinarily render…
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