Legal Opinion
Ronald Watson Lafferty v. Gerald Cook, Warden of the Utah State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 3, 1992No. 90-4010PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Watson Lafferty was convicted in Utah state court of two capital felonies and sentenced to death. After his convictions and sentences were affirmed on direct appeal, see State v. Lafferty, 749 P.2d 1239 (Utah 1988), Lafferty filed a petition for habeas corpus relief in federal district court under 28 U.S.C. §, 2254 (1988). During the federal proceedings, it was discovered that several transcripts of proceedings in state court had been omitted from the record on appeal. At the suggestion of the federal court, Lafferty filed a petition for rehearing with the Utah…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Demosthenes v. BaalSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- State v. LaffertyUtah Supreme Court · 1988
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3Cited by128 opinions
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- State v. ThurmanUtah Supreme Court · 1993
- Turner, Albert JamesCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2013
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