Legal Opinion
McGehee v. Norris
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 16, 2009No. 08-1182, 08-1513PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
In 1998, an Arkansas jury found Jason Farrell McGehee guilty of the capital murder of John Melbourne and sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed the conviction and sentence. After exhausting his avenues for state relief, McGehee filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, challenging his sentence on five separate grounds. The district court granted the writ on the ground that the state trial court improperly excluded relevant mitigating evidence during the sentencing phase…
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