Legal Opinion
Schornhorst v. Anderson
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided December 7, 1999No. IP-99-1851-C H/GPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENTRY ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND RELATED EMERGENCY MOTIONS
HAMILTON, District Judge.
The State of Indiana has sentenced D.H. Fleenor to die during the time after 12:01 a.m. and before the hour of sunrise on December 9, 1999, a window of time beginning about 30 hours from now. In this action, filed first thing this morning, December 7, 1999, three attorneys who have represented Fleenor in past proceedings have filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to act as Fleenor’s “next friends.” The petitioner-attorneys seek an emergency stay of the imminent execution, an order…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Lindh v. MurphySupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Whitmore Ex Rel. Simmons v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Penry v. LynaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Coe v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2000
- Stephen Michael West v. Ricky J. Bell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- Thompson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2004
- Lowery v. AndersonDistrict Court, S.D. Indiana · 2001
- Stephen Michael West v. Ricky J. Bell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
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