Legal Opinion
Charles Jess Palmer v. Harold W. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 13, 2005No. 03-3841, 03-3842PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Charles Jess Palmer and the State of Nebraska each appeal from the district court’s partial grant of Palmer’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. BACKGROUND
Palmer has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death three times for the 1979 felony murder of Eugene Zimmerman in Grand Island, Nebraska. The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed Palmer’s first conviction and death sentence because the state trial court erroneously admitted hypnotically induced testimony. State v. Palmer, 210 Neb. 206, 313 N.W.2d 648, 655 (1981) (Palmer I).…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Charles Jess Palmer v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, State of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus on Behalf of Charles Jess Palmer v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, State of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus on Behalf OfCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2005