Legal Opinion
Wertz v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided May 22, 2014No. CR-12-655PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAREN R. BAKER, Justice.
_|jOn July 19, 2007, a Sharp County jury convicted appellant, Steven Victor Wertz, of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death. We affirmed his conviction and sentence in Wertz v. State, 374 Ark. 256, 287 S.W.3d 528 (2008). The relevant facts as we recounted in Wertz’s direct appeal are as follows:
On the morning of December 31,1986, Kathy and Terry Watts were found dead in their Ash Flat home by Kathy’s mother, Judy Bone. Ms. Bone found their almost one-year-old son, alive, near his father’s body. During the investigation into the Wattses’ deaths, it was…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Howard v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2006
- Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by40 opinions
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