Legal Opinion
Jim Lowery v. Rondle Anderson, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 29, 2000No. 99-3227PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Jim Lowery is under sentence of death for the 1979 murders of Mark and Gertrude Thompson. A direct appeal to the Supreme Court of Indiana won him a new trial, but upon retrial he was again convicted and again sentenced to death. His appeals thereafter were fruitless. He petitioned for collateral relief, but his challenges to the murder convictions and death sentence were unsuccessful. His attempt to win a writ of habeas corpus from the U.S. District Court also failed. Now he is before us. We find that neither his conviction nor his sentence were the result of…
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