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Jordan v. Epps

District Court, S.D. Mississippi

Decided August 30, 2010No. Civil Action 1:05CV260KSPublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KEITH STARRETT, District Judge.

Introduction.

Richard Gerald Jordan was convicted of capital murder in the Circuit Court of Harrison County. He has had two trials on guilt and sentence — one in 1976 and one in 1977. He has had two additional sentencing trials- — in 1983 and 1998. The 1998 sentence is currently before the court on a habeas petition.

Facts of the crime.

Jordan was charged with capital murder in the course of a kidnaping. In 1976, after he discovered that she was the wife of a commercial loan officer at Gulf National Bank, he kidnapped Edwina Marter from…

2Cases cited261 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  4. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Jordan v. FisherSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  2. Richard Jordan v. Christopher Epps, CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2014
  3. Jordan v. FisherDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 2025
  4. Jordan v. FisherDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 2025
  5. Richard Gerald Jordan v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018

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