Legal Opinion
Cartwright v. Maynard
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1987No. 86-1231PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON REHEARING EN BANC
TACHA, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner William Thomas Cartwright appeals from the denial of habeas corpus relief by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Cartwright was convicted of the murder of Hugh Riddle and sentenced to death following a determination that the murder satisfied two statutory aggravating circumstances and that these aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating evidence. Cartwright alleges that the state of Oklahoma applied the “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel” aggravating circumstance in a unconstitutionally…
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