Legal Opinion
Soering v. Deeds
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 17, 1998No. Record 971647PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Compton
Petitioner Jens Soering was convicted in 1990 by a jury in the Circuit Court of Bedford County of two counts of first degree murder for the 1985 killings of Derek Haysom and Nancy Haysom in their Bedford County home near Lynchburg. Soering is being detained by the respondent under two terms of life imprisonment for the murders.
In 1995, the convict filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court. In August 1996, the Court, pursuant to Code § 8.01-657, awarded the petitioner a writ of habeas corpus returnable to the Circuit Court of Bedford County…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Wood v. BartholomewSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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