Legal Opinion
Wainwright v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided January 13, 1992No. CR 89-79PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Per curiam
The petitioner Kirt Wainwright was found guilty by a jury of capital felony murder in 1989 and sentenced to death by lethal injection. This court affirmed. Wainwright v. State, 302 Ark. 371, 790 S.W.2d 420 (1990); cert. den__U.S. _, 111 S. Ct. 1123 (1991). Petitioner now seeks permission to proceed in circuit court pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37. The petition contains some forty or more allegations, many of which petitioner concedes were raised only to satisfy procedural considerations with an eye to pursuing a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court should that be…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jones v. BarnesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Duren v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by52 opinions
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- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
- Flores v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2002
- Lee v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2001
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