[DOWNLOAD] "Franks v. Alford" by United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Franks v. Alford
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Release Date : January 05, 1987
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 51 KB

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Petitioner William Thomas Cartwright appeals from the denial of habeas corpus relief by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Cartwright was convicted of the murder of Hugh Riddle and sentenced to death following a determination that the murder satisfied two statutory aggravating circumstances and that these aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating evidence. Cartwright alleges that the state of Oklahoma applied the "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel" aggravating circumstance in a unconstitutionally vague and overbroad manner in this case. We agree.