Legal Opinion
Snell v. Lockhart
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided April 24, 1992No. PB-C-89-332PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
VAN SICKLE, District Judge.
On November 3, 1983, William Stumpp was murdered in the course of a robbery of his pawnshop in Texarkana, Arkansas. On November 1, 1984, Richard Wayne Snell was charged with capital murder in the death of William Stumpp. The trial was conducted before the Honorable Philip Pur-ifoy, Miller County Circuit Court at Texar-kana, Arkansas between August 13 and August 15, 1985, resulting in a conviction and a sentence of death by lethal injection. Snell was represented at trial by court-appointed counsel Marshall Moore and Rick Shumaker.
The Arkansas…
2Cases cited52 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Richard Wayne Snell v. A.L. Lockhart, Richard Wayne Snell v. A.L. LockhartCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- Fast Horse v. WeberSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1999