Legal Opinion
Torres v. Mullin
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 23, 2003No. 00-6334PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.
An Oklahoma jury convicted Osbaldo Torres of two counts of first-degree murder with malice aforethought and one count of first-degree burglary. Mr. Torres received a sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment on the burglary conviction and sentences of death on the two murder convictions. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (“OCCA”) affirmed his convictions and sentences. See Torres v. State, 962 P.2d 3 (Okla.Crim.App.1998).
After exhausting his state post-conviction remedies, Mr. Torres filed a petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mr. Torres’s…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by61 opinions
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