Simmons v. Beard

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 2009-09-11

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OPINION OF THE COURT FUENTES, Circuit Judge: Appellee-Petitioner Ernest Simmons was convicted in Pennsylvania state court of robbery and murder in the first degree, and subsequently sentenced to death. Both his direct appeal and petition for post-conviction relief were denied in state court, but the District Court granted Simmons’s habeas petition oh the ground that the state prosecutors had withheld several…

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