Legal Opinion
Evans v. Smith
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided June 30, 1999No. Civ. L-97-3711PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LEGG, District Judge.
In 1984, a Maryland state jury convicted the petitioner in this case, Vernon Lee Evans, Jr. (“Evans”), on two counts of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of David Scott Piechowiez and Susan Kennedy. At the subsequent sentencing, the same jury imposed two death sentences.
On post-conviction review in 1991, the Circuit Court for Worcester County vacated the two death sentences and granted Evans a new sentencing. In 1992, a resen-tencing jury also returned two death sentences. In total, Evans has petitioned the Maryland Court of Appeals five times in this…
2Cases cited57 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Vernon Lee Evans, Jr. v. Willie Smith, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2000
- Evans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2006
- United States v. JohnsonDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 2005
- Evans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2004
- Jackson v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 2009
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