Legal Opinion
Battenfield v. Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 3, 2001No. 99-7096PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Billy Ray Battenfield, an Oklahoma state prisoner convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and reverse and remand with instructions to grant the writ as to Battenfield’s death sentence, subject to the state district court conducting a new sentencing trial or vacating Battenfield’s death sentence and imposing a lesser sentence consistent with law.
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On the evening of April 22,1984, Batten-field and…
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