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EVANS v. BENNETT

No. A-868.

440 U.S. 1301 (1979)

99 S.Ct. 1481

59 L.Ed.2d 756

EVANS v. BENNETT, CORRECTIONAL COMMISSIONER, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 5, 1979.

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice.

This application for stay has come to me by reason of the unavailability of MR. JUSTICE POWELL. Applicant is the mother of John Louis Evans; her son was tried and convicted of robbery-murder and was sentenced to death pursuant to Alabama law by an Alabama trial court in April 1977. Evans did not contest his guilt at trial. Instead, he took the stand, confessed to the crime, and requested the jury to find him guilty so that he...

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