Legal Opinion
Richard S. Demarest v. William Price Gale Norton, Attorney General of the State of Colorado
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1997No. 95-1535PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Circuit Judge.
Respondents William Price and Gale Norton 1 appeal the district court’s order granting Richard Demarest’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and vacating his conviction for first degree murder in Jefferson County, Colorado. See Demarest v. Price, 905 F.Supp. 1432 (D.Colo.1995). The district court concluded that by failing to adequately investigate the case, interview witnesses, and present medical evidence, Mr. Demarest’s attorney in the Jefferson County murder trial deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of…
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