Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Beard
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 22, 2005No. Civil Action 02-161-JPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
On June 4, 1993, a jury empaneled by the Court of Common Pleas for Cambria County, Pennsylvania, convicted Petitioner Ernest Simmons of robbery and first-degree murder in the death of eighty-year-old Anna Knaze. The following day, the jury sentenced him to death on his first-degree murder conviction. 1 At issue today is Simmons’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. 10).
Having reviewed the Petition, we find a consistent pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the nature of withholding favorable evidence that…
2Cases cited56 opinions
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- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Tice v. WilsonDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 2006
- Simmons v. BeardCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2009
- Commonwealth v. SimmonsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2012
- Simmons v. BeardCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2009
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