Legal Opinion
David Joseph Steffen v. Arthur Tate, Jr., Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 24, 1994No. 92-3813PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from the action of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in which it issued a stay of execution on a petition by a state prisoner who had been sentenced to death. The prisoner is, and has been for over two years now, ably defended by the Ohio Public Defender. At the time that the petition for a stay of execution was filed with the district court, no petition for a writ of habeas corpus had been filed, and no such petition has been filed yet, more than two years later.
Shortly after the oral argument in this case in June 1993,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Evitts v. LuceySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- McFarland v. ScottSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- State v. MurnahanOhio Supreme Court · 1992
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3Cited by26 opinions
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- Stephen Michael West v. Ricky J. Bell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- Jessel Turner v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1997
- In Re Phil Parker, Warden, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1995
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