Legal Opinion
Christopher Brooks v. Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 19, 2016No. 15-15732PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Christopher E. Brooks, an Alabama death row inmate, appeals from the district court’s denial of his emergency motion to stay execution for the 1992 rape, burglary, robbery, and -murder of Jo Deann Campbell. He has also filed with this Court an emergency motion for a stay of execution. After the state moved to set an execution date, Brooks intervened pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 24(b) in a consolidated action filed by five inmates on Alabama’s death row. That lawsuit had started more than three years earlier as a claim brought under Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Nelson v. CampbellSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Glossip v. GrossSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
- Hill v. McDonoughSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
- McNair v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
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3Cited by47 opinions
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- Arthur v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2016
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