Pizzuto v. Richardson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO GERALD ROSS PIZZUTO, JR., Case No. 1:22-cv-00452-BLW Petitioner, CAPITAL CASE v. MEMORANDUM DECISION AND TIM RICHARDSON, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Respondent. Habeas corpus petitioner Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr., is an Idaho prisoner under death sentences for the brutal 1985 murders of Berta Louise Herndon and her nephew, Delbert Dean Herndon. The Petition1 alleges a single claim arising from Pizzuto’s clemency proceedings and his later judicial challenge to those proceedings. A majority of the Idaho Commission of…