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JACKSON v. THIGPEN

Civ. A. No. 87-C-2046-W.

752 F.Supp. 1551 (1990)

Patricia Ann Thomas JACKSON, Petitioner, v. Morris THIGPEN, Respondent.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, W.D.

November 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Hymer, Bradley Arant Rose & White, Birmingham, Ala., Hank Hawkins, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for petitioner.

John Gibbs, Don E. Siegelman, Montgomery, Ala., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

CLEMON, District Judge.

In this petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson ("petitioner") urges that her death sentence is constitutionally invalid for four reasons. She maintains that the death sentence was obtained by the unconstitutional use of an earlier crime both as an element of the capital crime and as an aggravating circumstance and that the trial judge impermissibly considered...

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