Legal Opinion
Dobbs v. Zant
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided August 7, 1989No. Civ. A. 4:80-CV-247-HLMPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.
Wilburn Dobbs is a Georgia inmate currently under a death sentence. He was convicted in 1974 in the Superior Court of Walker County of two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of armed robbery, and one count of murder. All the convictions arose from an incident at a convenience store in Chickamauga, Georgia in 1973.
This Court previously denied habeas corpus relief on all of Dobbs’ guilt/innocence claims and some of his sentencing phase claims, but granted relief on his claim that the trial court’s instruction on mitigating circumstances was…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. LovingCourt of Appeals for the Armed Forces · 1994
- Dobbs v. TurpinCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- United States v. Rex Henley, Rafael Bustamante, Willie McGowan and Garey WestCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Wilburn Dobbs v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
- Charles A. Perkins v. Robert LecureuxCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1995
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