U.S. v. CHURCH

No. 1:00CR00104.

217 F.Supp.2d 700 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America v. Walter Lefight CHURCH, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

August 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Bondurant, Jr., Anthony P. Giorno, Office of the United States Attorney, Roanoke, VA, for plaintiff.

James C. Turk, Jr., Stone, Harrison & Turk, P.C., Beverly M. Davis, Davis, Davis & Davis, Radford, VA, for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

JONES, District Judge.

The defendant, facing a trial in this court in which the government seeks the death penalty, argues in accord with a recent New York federal decision that to sentence him to death would violate due process because of the purported unreliability of the guilt process leading to the death penalty. I respectfully disagree with the case relied upon by the defendant and reject his effort to strike the death penalty as unconstitutional...

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