Legal Opinion
Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 10, 1989No. 88-8619PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
In December 1981 a grand jury indicted Jimmie Burden on four counts of murder for the 1974 deaths of Louise Wynn and her three children. Burden’s nephew, Henry Lee “Acid” Dixon, implicated Burden in the murders after Dixon was arrested for the crimes following a seven year investigation. A jury found Burden guilty of all four murders and he was sentenced to death on each count. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the four convictions and three of the death sentences; the fourth was vacated and remanded for re-sentencing to life imprisonment. Burden v. State, 297 S.E.2d 242…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Wood v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Stewart v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Roosevelt Green, Jr. v. Walter D. ZantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Burden v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
- Darryl B. Walker v. J.O. Davis, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Burden v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1990
- Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
- United States v. Stephon WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2018
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