Legal Opinion
Kelly Renee Gissendaner v. Kathy Seaboldt, Warden, Metro State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 19, 2013No. 12-13569PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Chief Judge:
The tumultuous relationship between Kelly and Douglas Gissendaner was marked by marriage, divorce, remarriage, separation, reconciliation, and a string of extramarital affairs on her part. After eight years of matrimonial and quasi-matrimonial turmoil, Gissendaner coaxed her on-again, off-again paramour, Gregory Owen, to kill her on-again, off-again husband. Although Owen suggested the less violent alternative of divorce, Gissendaner insisted that her husband be killed so that she could collect insurance money and because she believed that it would ensure that she would be…
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- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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