ENGBERG v. MEYER

No. 87-15.

820 P.2d 70 (1991)

Roy Lee ENGBERG, Appellant (Petitioner), v. Joseph B. MEYER, Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, and Duane Shillinger, Warden of the Wyoming State Penitentiary, Appellees (Respondents).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

October 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyoming Public Defender Program, Leonard D. Munker, State Public Defender, and Martin J. McClain, Deputy State Public Defender, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., and John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellees.

THOMAS, J., filed an opinion dissenting with respect to the reversal of the capital sentence, in which BROWN, C.J., Ret., joined.


In this appeal from the denial of post-conviction relief in a capital murder case, the issues divide, as does the pertinent statute, between those matters that affect the determination of guilt or innocence and those that impact the imposition of the capital sentence. Because of a division of the court with respect to the disposition of this case, with three justices agreeing that Roy Lee Engberg (Engberg) was lawfully convicted of first degree murder but one of those justices...

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