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EVANS v. SMITH

No. Civ. L-97-3711.

54 F.Supp.2d 503 (1999)

Vernon Lee EVANS, Jr., Petitioner, v. Willie SMITH, Warden, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

June 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald I. Fisher, of Washington, D.C., and A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Jane L. McClellan, and Sandeep Parekh, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, and Annabelle L. Lisic, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.

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 Piechowicz 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...

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