Legal Opinion

State v. Riley

Montana Supreme Court

Decided September 9, 1982No. 81-474PublishedCited by 65 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harrison

Court.

Sherry Riley and three codefendants were convicted of deliberate homicide following a jury trial in the Fifteenth Judicial District, State of Montana, in and for the County of Roosevelt. Riley was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment with ten years suspended. From that judgment she appeals.

The fact situation relating to the death of five-year-old James Gill has been stated in a recent opinion of this Court, State v. Powers (1982), Mont., 645 P.2d 1357, 39 St.Rep. 989. Only those facts specifically applicable to Sherry Riley, the appellant here, will be set forth in this opinion.

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2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. State v. JustMontana Supreme Court · 1979
  3. State v. ColemanMontana Supreme Court · 1978
  4. The People v. RichardsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1965
  5. Coleman v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980

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3Cited by65 opinions

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