Legal Opinion
Middlebrooks v. Bell
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 1, 2010No. 05-5904PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
In 1989, a jury convicted Donald Middle-brooks of the 1987 kidnaping and murder of Kerrick Majors, a fourteen-year-old African-American youth, and sentenced Mid-dlebrooks to death. The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed the convictions but vacated the death sentence in 1992. In 1995, a jury again sentenced Middlebrooks to death after finding that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel and after weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances. Middlebrooks raised a number of constitutional claims in state postconviction proceedings…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Henry Hodges v. Stanton Heidle, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2013
- Ross v. DIST. ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF ALLEGHENYCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2012
- Donald Middlebrooks v. Wayne CarpenterCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2016
- Reginald Williams v. Catherine BaumanCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2014
- Henry Hodges v. Roland ColsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2013
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