Legal Opinion
United States v. Hammer
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 9, 1998No. 4:CR-96-239PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MUIR, District Judge.
I. Introduction.
On September 18, 1996, a Grand Jury sitting in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, returned an indictment charging Defendant David Paul Hammer with first degree murder. On April 9, 1997, the government filed a notice of its intent to seek the death penalty in this case. Mr. Hammer was charged with killing his cellmate, Andrew Marti, while housed in Cell 103 of the Special Housing Unit at the Allenwood United States Penitentiary, White Deer, Pennsylvania. The cause of death was strangulation with a cord braided from a bedsheet.
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