Legal Opinion
Gollehon v. Mahoney
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 22, 2010No. 09-99011PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We are called upon to decide whether a state court defendant lacked fair notice as a matter of federal Constitutional law that aiding and abetting a deliberate homicide would subject him to the death penalty in Montana.
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A
On September 2, 1990, the badly beaten body of inmate Gerald Pileggi was found lying in the exercise yard of the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. 1 Several witnesses had seen inmates William Gollehon and Douglas Turner both strike Pileggi multiple times with baseball bats. An autopsy revealed that Pileggi died from massive head…
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