JONES

v.

VIRGINIA

Citator

Cited By

• Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, 714 F.2d 1455 (8th Cir. 1983)
  …oble and sentenced him to death by electrocution. Pickens’ motion for a new trial was denied and his conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Pickens v. State, 261 Ark. 756, 551 S.W. 2d 212 (1977) (en banc), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 1459, 55 L.Ed.2d 500 (1978).1 Pickens filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976) in federal district court on May 14, 1981, raising twenty separate points as grounds for relief. The district court, th…
• United States v. Ballard, 6 F.3d 1502 (11th Cir. 1993)
  …sentence for conviction of a crime is to be consecutive or concurrent is within the sound discretion of the trial judge.’ ” McLemore v. State, 562 So. 2d 639, 650 (Ala.Crim.App.1989) (quoting Clift v. State, 352 So. 2d 838 (Ala.1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 1459, 55 L.Ed.2d 500 (1978)). . On. appeal, the parties have cited cases from the Ninth and Fifth Circuits, the twp circuits that have addressed the authority of a federal court to impose a sentence consecutive to a state sentence not yet…
• Werneth v. Idaho, 449 U.S. 1129 (U.S. 1981)
  …ted circumstances not present here, of “all the charges against a defendant that grow out of a single criminal act, occurrence, episode, or transaction.” Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U. S. 436, 453-454 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring). See Clift v. Alabama, 435 U. S. 909 (1978) (Brennan, J., dissenting); Thompson v. Oklahoma, 429 U. S. 1053 (1977) (Brennan, J., dissenting), and cases collected therein. Accordingly, I would grant the petition for certiorari and reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Idaho.…