· 4/3/1979
Evans v. Bennett
Citations
- 467 F. Supp. 1108
- 1979 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13270
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- rejecting conclusion of petitioner's non-examining expert that prisoner was incompetent and denying stay of execution in eleventh-hour attempt to file a “next friend” habeas corpus petition
- mother of death-row inmate over the age of majority could not file habeas corpus petition on her son's behalf when there was no showing that son was incompetent
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