Personal Inmate Information
DOB: 11/23/1962
Race: White
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial Information
* County of conviction: Benton
* Number of counts: One
* Race of Victim: White
* Gender of Victim: Female
* Date of crime: 10/12/1990
* Date of Sentencing: 03/06/1992
Legal Status
Current Proceedings: Post certiorari; Petition for cert on Davis v. Hobbs, 130 S.Ct. 2432, filed Sept. 2, 2010
Attorneys
E. Schay
Deborah Sallings
Court Opinions
Davis v. State, 863 S.W.2d 259 (Ark. 1993), cert. denied, 511 U.S. 1026 (1994); Davis v. State, 44 S.W.3d 726 (Ark. 2001) (affirming denial of post‐conviction relief); Davis v. State, 53 S.W.3d 46 (Ark. 2001) (dissolving stay of execution); Davis v. Norris, 423 F.3d 868 (8th Cir. 2005) (affirming denial of habeas corpus)
Related Litigation: Stay of Execution based on Lethal Injection Claim by E.D. of Arkansas, June 26, 2006, Dansby v. Norris, Case No. 5:06‐Cv‐00110‐SWW; Nooner v. Norris, 2006 WL 4958988 (E.D. Ark. June 19, 2006) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss); Nooner v. Norris, 491 F.3d 804 (8th Cir. 2007) (reversing the judgment of the district court, dissolving the preliminary injunction it imposed, and vacating the stay of execution it entered), cert. denied, 552 U.S. 1201 (2008); Nooner v. Norris, 2008 WL 3211290 (E.D. Ark. Aug. 05, 2008) (granting defendants' motion for summary judgment and dissolving Davis's stay of execution); Nooner v. Norris, 594 F.3d 592 (2010) (denying platintiffs' challenge to the Arkansas lethal injection protocol); Davis v. Hobbs, 130 S.Ct. 2432 (2010) (dismissing certiorari).
Legal Issues
On appeal to 8th Circuit:
(1) Ake and ineffective assistance of counsel claim stemming from trial court's refusal to appoint an independent psychiatric examiner to assist with the penalty phase defense
Collateral Litigation:
(1) Lethal Injection Challenge
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