Legal Opinion
United States v. Dustin John Higgs
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 22, 2003No. 01-3PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINS and Judge LUTTIG joined.
OPINION
TRAXLER, Circuit Judge:
During the early morning hours of January 27, 1996, Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black, and Mishann Chinn were found murdered in the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Dustin John Higgs was subsequently convicted by a federal jury of three counts of first-degree premeditated murder, see 18 U.S.C.A. § 1111(a) (West 2000), three counts of first-degree murder committed in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a…
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