Legal Opinion
Roderick Herman Frey v. Thomas A. Fulcomer, Warden, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 15, 1992No. 91-1344PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Fulcomer, the warden of a Pennsylvania state prison, appeals from an order of the district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granting a writ of habeas corpus to a death row inmate, ap-pellee Roderick Frey. A jury in Pennsylvania state court had convicted and sentenced Frey to death for the contract murder of his estranged wife. Frey unsuccessfully appealed his conviction and sentence and was rebuffed in two subsequent attempts to obtain post-conviction relief in the Pennsylvania courts. He then petitioned for habeas corpus relief…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Pulley v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Walton v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by65 opinions
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- Jeffrey D. Hill v. Betty Mitchell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2005
- Andre Stanley Deputy v. Stanley Taylor, Warden, Sussex Correctional InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1994
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