Legal Opinion
State v. Conklin
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided October 27, 1969PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Per curiam
The defendant Robert T. Conklin was tried on charges, inter alia, of having murdered Oliver Lindsay Clarkson and his wife Ethyl Williamson Clarkson. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation of life imprisonment and he was sentenced to death on each of the two murder charges. He appealed to this Court as of right and raises seven points of alleged error, all addressed substantially to the death sentences rather than the finding of guilt.
Sometime before November 31, 1968 the defendant Conklin who was 33 years of age, and his companions John Matthew Sheridan…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. MorseCalifornia Supreme Court · 1964
- Shoemaker v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1962
- Henry C. Alford v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
- William L. Maxwell v. O. E. Bishop, Superintendent, Arkansas State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Laws v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
3Cited by16 opinions
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