Legal Opinion
Buttrum v. Black
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided September 20, 1989No. 1:87-cv-00258PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.
Petitioner Janice Buttrum, a Georgia inmate sentenced to death for murder, presents this petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. She attacks both her conviction for murder and her death sentence imposed by a jury in 1981. For the reasons set forth below, habeas corpus relief from her conviction for murder shall be DENIED, and relief from her sentence of death shall be GRANTED.
I. PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL HISTORY.
A. Procedural History.
On August 29, 1981, a Whitfield County jury found Janice Buttrum guilty of the murder of Demetra Faye…
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