Legal Opinion
Reid v. Johnson
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 3, 2004No. CIV.A. 3:03CV1039PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HUDSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff, James Edward Reid, a Virginia state inmate sentenced to death, brings this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“ § 1983”). Reid is scheduled to be executed on September 9, 2004. The matter is before the Court on Reid’s amended motion for preliminary injunctive relief “in the form of a stay of his execution scheduled for September 9, 2004.” PL’s Mem. In Supp. of Am. Mot. for Prelim. Inj. Relief at 35.
I. Procedural History
On the morning of October 12, 1996, Reid went to the home of Annie Lester, an elderly woman. Reid stabbed Lester 22…
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