Legal Opinion
Stephens v. Kemp
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided June 8, 1984No. Civ. A. No. CVI83-280PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BOWEN, District Judge.
Petitioner is under sentence of death. Before the Court is his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
On February 15, 1980, a jury in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia, found William Kenny Stephens guilty of one count of murder and three counts of aggravated assault. The next day, Stephens was sentenced to death for the murder and to consecutive twenty year sentences on each aggravated assault count. In its opinion affirming the conviction and sentences, the Supreme Court of Georgia set forth the facts of the case:
The record establishes that on January…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by2 opinions
- William Kenny Stephens, Cross-Appellee v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- William Kenny Stephens, Cross-Appellee v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988