Legal Opinion
Parsons v. Barnes
Utah Supreme Court
Decided January 11, 1994No. 920126PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWE, Justice:
Plaintiff Joseph Mitchell Parsons appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
On August 30, 1987, Parsons was hitchhiking near Barstow, California, when the victim, Richard L. Ernest, offered him a ride to Denver, Colorado. Parsons accepted. At 3:00 the next morning, the two men stopped to sleep at the Lunt Park rest area on Interstate Highway 15 near Cedar City, Utah. Both men were settling into sleep when, according to Parsons, Ernest made two sexual advances. The men struggled, and Parsons stabbed Ernest in the chest several times with a five-inch…
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