Legal Opinion
Ronald K. Spivey v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1981No. 80-7243PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
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On June 30, 1977, a jury in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, convicted the petitioner, Ronald Keith Spivey, of one count each of murder and kidnapping and two counts each of aggravated assault and armed robbery. In a separate sentencing proceeding, the same jury recommended that Spivey be sentenced to death on the murder charge. The trial judge followed that recommendation and sentenced Spivey to death; he sentenced Spivey to life imprisonment on the armed robbery charges, twenty years on the kidnapping charge, and ten years on each assault charge.
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