Legal Opinion
Robert Farmer v. E.K. McDaniel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 7, 2012No. 10-99017PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEA, Circuit Judge:
Robert Farmer was sentenced to death in Nevada in 1984 after a three-judge post-conviction sentencing panel found the existence of two statutory aggravating circumstances, both of which were based on the murder’s commission in the course of other felonies. The panel found no mitigating circumstances. However, Farmer’s death sentence was vacated in 2007 after the Nevada Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to use as an aggravating circumstance the fact that a murder was committed in the course of committing another felony or felonies. McConnell v. State,…
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