Paradis v. State

McDEVITT, Chief Justice.

This is a capital ease before this Court on the State’s Motion to Dismiss the appeal of Donald Manuel Paradis (Paradis) from the district court’s dismissal of Paradis’s Amended Second Petition for Post-Conviction Relief and denial of Paradis’s Motion to Reconsider or Alter and Amend Decision.

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BACKGROUND AND FACTS

Paradis was convicted of the first-degree murder of Kimberly Ann Palmer (Palmer) and was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s judgment of conviction for first-degree murder and imposition of the death sentence upon that…