Legal Opinion
Jesse Joseph Trujillo v. George E. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 1, 1987No. 85-2093PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
Jesse Trujillo appeals an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Trujillo was convicted on two counts of first degree murder while imprisoned in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in the deaths of prisoner Bobby “Barbershop” Garcia and prison guard Louis Jewett. Though the State sought the death penalty, the jury could not unanimously agree to impose it. Instead, it sentenced Mr. Trujillo to two life terms and three years, to run consecutively to each other and to his previous life…
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