Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Whitley
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided April 14, 1989No. CV-N-87-505-ECRPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*707ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., Chief Judge.
On October 26, 1987, petitioner Rogers filed a petition for habeas corpus with this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In that petition, Rogers asserted sixteen grounds for holding his Nevada conviction for first degree murder and his concommitment death sentence constitutionally infirm. On November 21, 1988, this Court found that one ground in Rogers’ petition had not been exhausted in the Nevada state court system as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)-(c). Accordingly, we ordered Rogers either to seek a stay of his federal petition pending exhaustion of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Jimmy Neuschafer v. Harol Whitley Attorney General for the State of Nevada, RespondentsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Neuschafer v. WhitleyDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1987
- Rogers v. WhitleyDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1988
3Cited by2 opinions
- Rogers v. McDanielDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 2011
- United States ex rel. Harris v. NelsonDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1996