Legal Opinion
Reginald Mahaffey v. James Schomig
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 29, 2002No. 01-4271PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
In this double homicide case, which started during the first term of the Reagan administration, two separate juries found Reginald Mahaffey guilty. After the convictions, two separate sentencing hearings ended in jury findings that Ma-haffey was eligible for the death penalty and that no mitigating circumstances sufficient to preclude the imposition of the ultimate penalty were present. And so, Mahaffey received a sentence of death. Twice.
In July of 2001, after 18 years of litigation in state court, and the exhaustion of all remedies there, the case moved to…
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