Legal Opinion
Ward v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided April 7, 2009No. 74S00-0707-DP-263PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DICKSON, Justice.
The defendant, Roy Lee Ward, appeals his death sentence for the 2001 rape and murder of fifteen-year-old Stacy Payne in Dale, Spencer County, Indiana. We affirm the sentence.
This appeal follows the defendant's see-ond trial. His first jury trial, in Spencer County, resulted in guilty verdicts for Murder, Rape, and Criminal Deviate Conduct, followed by a sentencing-phase jury trial that resulted in a death sentence. The sentence and convictions were reversed due to prejudicial pre-trial publicity. Ward v. State, 810 N.E.2d 1042 (Ind.2004), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 926, 126 S.Ct.…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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- United States v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Morgan v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by28 opinions
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