SOERING v. DEEDS

Record No. 971647.

499 S.E.2d 514 (1998)

255 Va. 457

Jens SOERING v. George DEEDS, Warden, Keen Mountain Correctional Center.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail Starling Marshall, Rapidan, for appellant.

John H. McLees, Jr., Assistant Attorney General (Richard Cullen, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

Petitioner Jens Soering was convicted in 1990 by a jury in the Circuit Court of Bedford County of two counts of first degree murder for the 1985 killings of Derek Haysom and Nancy Haysom in their Bedford County home near Lynchburg. Soering is being detained by the respondent under two terms of life imprisonment for the murders.

In 1995, the convict filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus invoking the original jurisdiction of this Court...

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