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Parties Involved:
Attorney General of the State of Wyoming
Appellant
Mark A. Hopkinson
Appellee
Duane Shillinger
Appellant

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CtRCUl:T 

MARK A. HOPKINSON, 

Petitioner-Appellee, 

v. 

DUANE SHILLINGERt 

Respondent-Appellant, 

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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF 

THE STATE OF WYOMING, 

Additional Respondent-Appellant. 

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No. 90-8091 

(D.C, No. C90-249) 

(Dist. of Wyoming) 

F' I LED 

Unitied Stat.a C.vt r,f Ap;.;,11!1 

Terith Circuit 

SEP 241990 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT• 

aOBERT. L. HOECKEF 

Clerk 

PER CURIAM. 

Mark Hopkinson 's execution was set by the State of Wyoming 

for 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, September 25, 1990, for the murder of 

Jeff Green. On September 20, l9i0, the Wyoming Supreme Court, by 

a vote of 3-2, denied a stay of execution. On September 23, 1990, 

at approximately 12:50 p.m. , the federal district court granted a 

stay of execution based primarily on the substantial issue raised 

under Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 (1978); Eddings v. Oklahoma, 

455 U,S. 104 (~982)i Mills v. Maryland, 108 S. Ct, 1860 (1988); 

* This Order and Judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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and McKoy v. North Carol~na, 110 s. Ct, 1227 (1990), The State 

appeals the stay of execution. 

This court has received all pleadings filed in the Wyoming 

Supreme Court and in the federal district court, including the 

responses of the State. We have reviewed the findings and 

conclusions of the federal district court, which we received at 

9:30 p.m. on September 23, 1990, and we have heard oral argument 

on the issues. 

The court, by a divided panel, hereby declines to overturn 

t he stay. 

Entered for the court: 

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