State v. Curley

• Decision Date: 23 May 1979
• Docket Number: No. 12590,12590
• Citation: 595 P.2d 316,100 Idaho 167
• Parties: STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Dixon Douglas CURLEY, Defendant-Appellant.
• Court: Idaho Supreme Court

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595 P.2d 316

100 Idaho 167

STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Dixon Douglas CURLEY, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 12590.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

May 23, 1979.

William H. Mulberry, Pinehurst, for defendant-appellant.

David H. Leroy, Atty. Gen., Lynn E. Thomas, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for plaintiff-respondent.

Before SHEPARD, C. J., and McFADDEN, DONALDSON, BAKES and BISTLINE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant-appellant Dixon Douglas Curley was charged by criminal complaint on August 17, 1976, with first degree murder of a police officer. The jury rendered its verdict of guilty on February 18, 1977. The district court entered judgment and sentence of death on March 22, 1977. Stay of execution was entered pending appeal.

The issues raised in this appeal were considered and decided in State v. Lindquist, 99 Idaho 766, 589 P.2d 101 (1979), wherein the statute under which Curley was sentenced was held by a divided court to be unconstitutional. The sentence is therefore set aside and the cause remanded for resentencing in accordance with the opinion in Lindquist.