Legal Opinion
Lezmond Mitchell v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2015No. 11-99003PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge SILVERMAN; Partial Dissent by Judge REINHARDT.
OPINION
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
Defendant Lezmond Mitchell, then 20 years old, plottéd with three others to carjack a vehicle for use in an armed robbery of a trading post located on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. On October 28, 2001, Mitchell and his 16-year-old accomplice, Johnny Orsinger, abducted 63-year-old Alyce Slim and her nine-year old granddaughter. Slim and the child were traveling to New Mexico in Slim’s GMC pickup truck. Somewhere near Sawmill, Arizona, Mitchell and Orsinger killed Slim by stabbing her 33 times.…
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