Legal Opinion
Jimmie Wayne Jeffers v. Samuel Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Donald Wawrzaszek, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1994No. 86-1840PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge DAVID R. THOMPSON; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.
DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
In 1978, an Arizona jury convicted Jimmie Wayne Jeffers of first degree murder.1 After a sentencing hearing, the trial court found two aggravating factors and.no mitigating circumstances. The court sentenced Jeffers to death, in accordance with the Arizona death penalty statute, Ariz.Rev.Stat. § 13=154 (Supp.1973) (currently Ariz.Rev. Stat. § 13-703 (1989)).
The Arizona Supreme Court vacated Jef-fers’s death sentence and remanded his case to the trial court for resentencing…
2Cases cited56 opinions
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3Cited by92 opinions
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