PAVATT v. ROYAL

No. 14-6117.

894 F.3d 1115 (2017)

James Dwight PAVATT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Terry ROYAL, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

As amended on denial of rehearing July 2, 2018, nunc pro tunc June 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah M. Jernigan , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, ( Patti Palmer Ghezzi , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Robert R. Nigh, Jr. , Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her on the briefs), for Petitioner-Appellant.

Joshua L. Lockett , Assistant Attorney General, ( E. Scott Pruitt , Attorney General of Oklahoma, with him on the brief), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before KELLY, BRISCOE and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


James Pavatt was convicted by an Oklahoma jury of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. He was sentenced in accordance with the jury's recommendations to death on the first-degree-murder conviction and ten years' imprisonment on the conspiracy conviction. After exhausting his state-court remedies...

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