Legal Opinion
Parker v. Lockhart
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided July 7, 1992No. PB-C-91-548PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, District Judge.
William Frank Parker was twice tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for murdering James and Sandra Warren, the parents of his ex-wife. He now challenges the constitutionality of his conviction and sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The single issue before the Court on Parker’s motion for partial summary judgment is whether his second trial violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. For the reasons that follow, the Court finds that it did not.
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Parker initially was convicted for capital…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Benton v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by11 opinions
- People v. WatsonMichigan Court of Appeals · 2001
- State v. WrightWashington Supreme Court · 2009
- State v. WrightWashington Supreme Court · 2009
- Parker v. NorrisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Delgado v. Florida Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2011
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