Ronald Allen Smith v. Jack McCormick Warden, Montana State Prison

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1990-09-07

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FERGUSON, Circuit Judge: Ronald Smith appeals from the U.S. District Court’s summary judgment denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Smith, sentenced to death for the murder of two Native American men in Montana, asserts numerous constitutional violations in the sentencing process. I. On August 3, 1982, Ronald Smith, then 24 years old, hitched a ride from the town of Red Dee…

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