Legal Opinion
Groseclose v. Dutton
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided May 24, 1985No. 3-84-0579PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
JOHN T. NIXON, District Judge.
This is a bifurcated case that was originally filed as a next friend action by William Groseclose, Reverend Joseph Ingle, the Southern Coalition on Jails and Prisons, and the Tennessee Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, individually, and on behalf of Ronald Harries. Groseclose and Harries are prisoners who are confined to Unit VI at the Tennessee State Penitentiary and have been sentenced to death. Although Mr. Harries had avenues open to appeal his sentence of death, he announced he would forego those appeals because of the adverse…
2Cases cited54 opinions
- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Peterkin v. JeffesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1988
- State v. WestTennessee Supreme Court · 1989
- Peterkin v. JeffesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1988
- Knop v. JohnsonDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1987
- Groseclose v. DuttonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1986
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