Legal Opinion
Payne v. Shinn
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided June 28, 2023No. 4:20-cv-00459Unknown
1Opinion
1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Christopher Payne, No. CV-20-0459-TUC-JAS 10 Petitioner, ORDER 11 v. DEATH PENALTY CASE 12 Ryan Thornell, et al., 13 Respondents.1 14 15 Petitioner Christopher Payne is an Arizona death row inmate seeking habeas relief 16 from this Court. He has filed a motion pursuant to Rhines v. Weber,
544 U.S. 269
(2005), 17 seeking to stay these proceedings and hold them in abeyance while he returns to state court 18 to exhaust Claim 21, based on Simmons v. South Carolina,
512 U.S. 154
(1994). (Doc. 59.) 19 Payne also…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Woodford v. NgoSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
- Rhines v. WeberSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- Bartlett v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Simmons v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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