Legal Opinion
Gardner v. Galetka
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2009No. 07-4104PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
While Petitioner-Appellant Ronnie Lee Gardner was being escorted from prison to the state district court in Salt Lake City in 1985 for a hearing on a charge of second degree murder, an accomplice handed him a gun. At point-blank range, Mr. Gardner shot Michael Burdell, an attorney standing inside the court’s archives room. Mr. Bur-dell died, and Mr. Gardner was convicted of first degree capital murder and sentenced to death.
I. BACKGROUND
Our recitation of the facts and lengthy case history is based largely on United State Magistrate Judge Samuel Alba’s thorough Report…
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