Legal Opinion
Grigsby v. Mabry
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1980No. Nos. 80-1262, 80-1286PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Chief Judge.
Petitioner Grigsby was convicted of capital felony murder in Franklin County Circuit Court for the State of Arkansas. In 1978, Grigsby filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in district court, alleging, among other grounds, that the determination of his guilt by a “death-qualified” jury deprived him of trial by a fair and impartial jury.1 The district court held “that the refusal of the trial court to allow a continuance so that the petitioner could attempt to make the evidentiary showing suggested in Witherspoon,2 of the guilt proneness of ‘death-qualified’ juries so…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Lockhart v. McCreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- State v. RamseurSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1987
- People v. FieldsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1983
- Grigsby v. MabryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- State v. PrestonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1984
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