(DOWNLOAD) "Richard Gerald Jordan v. State of Mississippi" by Supreme Court of Mississippi # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Richard Gerald Jordan v. State of Mississippi
- Author : Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Release Date : January 31, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 82 KB
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This case involves the third time that Richard Gerald Jordan has been sentenced to death for the capital murder of Mrs. Edwina Marter. On July 21, 1976, he was found guilty of capital murder and was given the death penalty for the first time. That conviction was prior to procedures laid down in Jackson v. State, 337 So. 2d 1242 (Miss. 1976), providing for bifurcated trials in capital murder cases. The lower court granted a motion for new trial under the precedents established in Jackson and Jordan was tried, convicted and sentenced to death a second time. The conviction and sentence were affirmed in Jordan v. State, 365 So. 2d 1198 (Miss. 1978), petition for rehearing was denied by this Court, and Jordan petitioned the United States Supreme Court for writ of certiorari to the Mississippi Supreme Court, and certiorari was denied. Jordan v. Mississippi, 444 U.S. 885, 100 S. Ct. 175, 62 L.Ed.2d 114 (1979).