Legal Opinion
Michael Lindsey v. Morris Thigpen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 24, 1989No. 86-7162, 89-7389 and 89-7390PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COURT:
Michael Lindsey was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982. Lindsey now seeks: (1) a stay of execution, (2) an order appointing new counsel, (3) a certificate of probable cause to appeal the district court’s denial of his motion to reopen that court’s 1986 judgment denying his first petition for habeas corpus (“CPC”), (4) an order recalling the mandate by which this court affirmed the district court’s 1986 judgment, and (5) a certificate of probable cause to appeal the district court's denial of his third petition for habeas corpus. We deny all relief.
I. BACKGROUND
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2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Ford v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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