MAGWOOD v. CULLIVER

No. 2:97cv629-MHT.

481 F.Supp.2d 1262 (2007)

Billy Joe MAGWOOD, Petitioner, v. Grantt CULLIVER, Warden, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

April 9, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Power, Jr., Marguerite Del Valle, Power Del Valle LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner.

Beth Jackson Hughes, James Clayton Crenshaw, Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for defendants.


OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This case is before the court on petitioner Billy Joe Magwood's third habeas petition, in which he challenges his 1986 death sentence on the grounds that it violates the Sixth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as this court's 1985 conditional grant of habeas corpus. Specifically, Magwood argues that the Alabama courts failed to conduct a proper proportionality review of his sentence...

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