Legal Opinion
Billy Junior Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 31, 1985No. 83-2168PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Billy Woodard, has been tried by jury, found guilty of capital felony murder, and sentenced to death. See 261 Ark. 895, 553 S.W.2d 259. Woodard was tried by a so-called “death-qualified jury,” from which all persons who refused to consider the death penalty had been excluded. In Grigsby v. Mabry, 758 F.2d 226 (8th Cir.1985) (en banc), we held that such juries are not fairly representative of the community and are not impartial on the question of guilt or innocence. In Woodard’s case we must face the issue whether Grigsby is to be applied “retroactively,”…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Linkletter v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Lonnie Joe Dutton v. John N. Brown and the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Amicus CuriaeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1987
- People v. MyersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1987
- Billy Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1987
- Trimble v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1985
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