Legal Opinion
Kennedy v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 27, 1989PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
During the pre-dawn hours of December 24, 1980, Victor Kennedy and Darrell Grayson went to the home of Mrs. Annie Laura Orr with the intent to burglarize the same. Mrs. Orr was an eighty-six year old widow who lived alone in her home in Montevallo, Alabama. Kennedy and Grayson broke into Mrs. Orr's house and found her sleeping. The two men put a pillowcase over Mrs. Orr's head and wrapped tape tightly around the pillowcase. After being repeatedly terrorized, assaulted and raped, Mrs. Orr died of suffocation.
On January 16, 1981, Kennedy was indicted for the capital offense of "nighttime…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Pennsylvania v. FinleySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Kimmelman v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Victor Kennedy v. Tommy Herring, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- State v. ThomasNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1991
- Neelley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- Perry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990
- Lightfoot v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1991
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