Legal Opinion
Mark A. Hopkinson v. Duane Shillinger, and the Attorney General of the State of Wyoming
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 1, 1989No. 86-2571PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON REHEARING EN BANC
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Mark A. Hopkinson was convicted in Wyoming State Court on four counts of first degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit first degree murder. The first three counts of murder arose out of his hiring Michael Hickey to bomb Vincent Vehar’s home. That bombing killed Vehar, Vehar’s wife, and one of his sons; another son was injured in the blast but survived. The fourth murder count was for procuring the killing of Jeff Green. Hopkinson was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the Vehar murders, and to death for the murder of…
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