Petitioner Carlos Manuel Ayestas was convicted and sentenced to death for murder in 1995. See Ayestas v. Stephens, 817 F.3d 888, 892 (5th Cir. 2016). After the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence, Ayestas petitioned for...
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In 1982, Gary Bradford Cone, a Vietnam veteran, was found guilty and sentenced to death in a Tennessee criminal court for the murder of two elderly people during the commission of a robbery. See Cone v. Bell, 492 F.3d 743, 748 (6th Cir. 2007). Under...
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This case comes before the Supreme Court more than four years after the most violent act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. See Brief for the Respondents in Opposition at 2. The September 11th attacks occurred on Tuesday, September 11, 2001...
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The facts of Magwood’s offense are not in dispute. Magwood v. Culliver, 55 f.3d 968, 970 (11th Cir. 2009). On March 1, 1979, when Thomas Weeks, a Coffee County Deputy Sheriff, arrived at the Coffee County jail house, he spotted and recognized...