Legal Opinion
Romano v. Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 13, 2001No. 99-6310, 99-6323PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
These death penalty appeals 1 present a number of issues. The most difficult, which we deal with at some length, include: 1) whether the State violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), by failing to disclose a detective’s unrecorded recollection of the temperature of the victim’s apartment; 2) what degree of mental torture or conscious serious physical abuse preceding death is necessary to satisfy Oklahoma’s especially heinous, atrocious or cruel aggravating factor; and 3) the extent to which defense counsel, under Strickland v.…
2Cases cited95 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by134 opinions
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