OKEN v. SIZER

No. CIV. PJM 04-1830.

321 F.Supp.2d 658 (2004)

Steven Howard OKEN, Plaintiff v. Frank C. SIZER, Jr., Commissioner, Maryland Division of Correction, et al., Defendants

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

June 14, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Warren Bennett, Michael Edward Lawlor, Bennett and Lawlor LLP, Greenbelt, MD, David M. Barron, Law Office of David M. Barron, Columbia, SC, Jerome Howard Nickerson, Jr., Law Office of Jerome H. Nickerson, Baltimore, MD, for Plaintiff.

David P. Kennedy, Ann N. Bosse, Scott S. Oakley, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Defendants.


OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

I.

Introduction

In 1987, Steven Howard Oken murdered Dawn Marie Garvin in merciless fashion, shattering the lives of her family and friends forever. The suffering that this young woman underwent, that her family and friends have undergone since, is unimaginable.

Since his conviction of this crime and his sentence of death in 1991, in an effort to undo his conviction, Oken has pursued...

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