Carriger v. Stewart

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1997-12-17

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SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge: INTRODUCTION Paris Hoyt Carriger was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Robert Shaw in , 1978. Shaw was beaten on the head with a skillet and strangled with his own necktie’ during a robbery of his Phoenix jewelry store. The chief prosecution witness was Robert Dunbar; Carriger’s defense was that Dunbar committed the murder. After…

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