Legal Opinion
Ritter v. Smith
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided August 11, 1983No. Civ. A. 83-0457-HPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
HAND, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This cause came before the Court pursuant to Wayne Eugene Ritter’s petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1977 in an Alabama state court.
Petitioner and John Lewis Evans committed an armed robbery of a pawn shop in Mobile, Alabama on January 5, 1977. During the course of the robbery, the pawn shop proprietor, Mr. Edward Nassar, was shot in the back by Evans and died. Petitioner and Evans were indicted under Alabama’s…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
- Wayne E. Ritter v. Fred Smith, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections and J.D. White, Warden, Holman UnitCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Ingram v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1999
- Whitehead v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1999
- McNair v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997
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