Court Opinion

ID: 9493874
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:21:54.393704+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:04.798644
License: Public Domain

ORDER
We have considered Mickens’ motion to stay the issuance of our mandate and to stay the sentence of execution of the state court, which motion was filed in our court March 16, 2001, and we have considered the response thereto filed by the Commonwealth March 19, 2001.
Voting to grant the stay were Judges Michael, Motz and King, and voting to deny the stay were Judges Wilkinson, Widener, Wilkins, Niemeyer, Luttig, Williams and Traxler.
It is accordingly ADJUDGED and ORDERED that the motion of Mickens to stay the issuance of our mandate and to stay the sentence of execution by the state court shall be, and it hereby is, denied.
MICHAEL, J., joined by DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ and KING, JJ., filed a dissenting opinion, which follows: