Legal Opinion
Daniel Lon Graham v. James Mabry, Commissioner
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1981No. 80-1875PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Daniel Lon Graham was convicted of first-degree murder in 1971 in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Arkansas. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, but the Supreme Court of Arkansas reduced the sentence from death by electrocution to life imprisonment. Graham v. State, 253 Ark. 462, 486 S.W.2d 678 (1972). A petition for post-conviction relief under what was then Rule One of the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Rules of Criminal Procedure (now Ark.R.Crim.P. 37) was unsuccessful. Graham then brought a petition for habeas corpus in the United States District Court for…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by31 opinions
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