Legal Opinion
Harold Lamont Otey v. Frank X. Hopkins, Warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 3, 1994No. 93-1050PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Harold Lamont Otey appeals from the district court’s denial of his writ of habeas corpus. Otey has unsuccessfully challenged his capital sentence in five separate actions in both state and federal courts. Having presented his claims to sixteen separate judicial forums from 1978 to 1991, and having these claims rejected each time, Otey threw himself on the mercy of the State of Nebraska Board of Pardons (the Board). The Board denied his request for commutation, and this resulted in litigation in five additional state and federal forums attacking the federal…
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