Legal Opinion
Ryan v. Clarke
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided September 11, 2003No. 4:99CV3318PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KOPF, District Judge.
This is a death penalty habeas corpus case. It involves the most horrendous torture and sickening murder imaginable. There is not the slightest doubt about the petitioner’s guilt. If any man deserves to be put to death, that man is Michael Ryan.
Michael Ryan (Ryan or the petitioner) was sentenced to death for torturing and then killing James Thimm. Ostensibly in the name of his God, and over a period of two days, Ryan and others at his direction tied and chained Thimm in a hog confinement shed; on several occasions sodomized Thimm with a shovel handle…
2Cases cited100 opinions
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- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by8 opinions
- MICHAEL W. RYAN, PETITIONER—APPELLANT v. HAROLD W. CLARKE, DIRECTOR, STATE OF NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES RESPONDENT—APPELLEECourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004
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- Jeffrey D. Lundgren v. Betty Mitchell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
- Jeffrey D. Lundgren v. Betty Mitchell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
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