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RYAN v. CLARKE

No. 4:99CV3318.

281 F.Supp.2d 1008 (2003)

Michael RYAN, Petitioner, v. Harold W. CLARKE, Director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Nebraska.

September 11, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Nelsen, Hillman, Forman Law Firm, Omaha, NE, Steven E. Achelpohl, Omaha, NE, for Petitioner.

J. Kirk Brown, Attorney General's Office Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Jon C. Bruning, Attorney General's Office Nebraska, Kimberly A. Klein, Attorney General's Office Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, for Respondent.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KOPF, District Judge.

This is a death penalty habeas corpus case. It involves the most horrendous torture and sickening murder imaginable. There is not the slightest doubt about the petitioner's guilt. If any man deserves to be put to death, that man is Michael Ryan.

Michael Ryan (Ryan or the petitioner) was sentenced to death for torturing and then killing James Thimm. Ostensibly in the name of his God, and over a period of...

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