Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death in Santa Barbara County on July 22, 1987 for bludgeoning his girlfriend, Linda Smith, to death with a hammer on February 26, 1986.
Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death in Santa Barbara County on July 22, 1987 for bludgeoning his girlfriend, Linda Smith, to death with a hammer on February 26, 1986.
On April 29, 1991, the California Supreme Court affirmed Wharton's sentence on direct appeal.
http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/p...-wharton-31022
On November 7, 2011, Wharton filed an appeal in the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over the denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir.../ca9/11-99016/
GEORGE WHARTON V. KEVIN CHAPPELL
In today's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions, the court affirmed in part and vacated in part the district court’s judgment denying relief on George H. Wharton’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction and capital sentence for first-degree murder, and remanded for further proceedings.
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No longer at San Quentin D63101
No longer listed on the Condemned Inmate List 11/03/2016
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