PUCKETT v. EPPS

Civil Action No. 2:04CV302HSO.

615 F.Supp.2d 494 (2009)

Larry Matthew PUCKETT, Petitioner v. Christopher B. EPPS, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections and Lawrence Kelly, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Respondents.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Hattiesburg Division.

March 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheryl M. Bey, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Jackson, MS, Keir M. Weyble-PHV, Blume, Weyble & Lominack, LLC, Columbia, SC, for Petitioner.

Marvin L. White, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Jackson, MS, for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HALIL SULEYMAN OZERDEN, District Judge.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Larry Matthew Puckett was convicted of the capital murder, while in the commission of sexual battery, of Rhonda Hatten Griffis. Puckett was sentenced to death by the Circuit Court of Forrest County on August 5, 1996. On direct appeal the Mississippi Supreme Court remanded the case to Forrest County for a hearing on whether the jury...

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