Legal Opinion
Burket v. Angelone
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided February 23, 1999No. 2:97CV235PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND FINAL ORDER
JACKSON, District Judge.
On January 19, 1994, Petitioner pled guilty in the Circuit Court for the City of Virginia Beach to the murders of Katherine Tafelski and Ashley Tafelski, Petitioner’s neighbors. Petitioner also pled guilty to one count of statutory burglary, one count of sexual penetration with an inanimate object, and two counts of malicious wounding of A.J. Tafelski and Chelsea Brothers. On March 24, 1994, the court sentenced Petitioner to death for the murders, and to two life sentences and a total of 40 years in prison for the non-capital convictions.
Petitione…
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