Wilcher v. Epps

MEMORANDUM OPINION1

WINGATE, Chief Judge.

Before this court is Bobby Wilcher’s “Emergency Motion To Reinstate Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus, To Withdraw Petitioner’s Pro Se Motion, And To Reinstate Stay Of Execution.” Bobby Wilcher, petitioner, is a death-row inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Mississippi, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection a few days from now, on October 18, 2006, at 6:00 o’clock p.m.

Wilcher, through his attorney, Cliff Johnson, filed this motion on October 5, 2006. The State of Mississippi, represented by Marvin L. White, Jr.,…