Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Thigpen
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided June 26, 1987No. Civ. A. J83-0566(B)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BARBOUR, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
This case has been presented to the Court on a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. The Court will briefly set out the procedural history of this case. The facts of this case are set forth in Edwards v. State, 413 So.2d 1007 (Miss.1982) (appeal) and Edwards v. Thigpen, 433 So.2d 906 (Miss.1983) (coram nobis/habeas corpus). Petitioner Leo Edwards was convicted of capital murder in the death of Lindsey Don Dixon and sentenced to death. Petitioner appealed his conviction and sentence to the Mississippi Supreme Court by direct appeal…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Davis v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
- Lester v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
- Willie Albert Smith v. Lee Roy Black, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Leo E. Edwards, Jr. v. Gene A. Scroggy, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- Smith v. ThigpenDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1988
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