Supreme Court of the United States
Youngblood v. West Virginia
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- Type
- Opinion of the Court
- Per curiam
- Yes — no individual author
- Filed
- June 19, 2006
- Case
- Youngblood v. West Virginia
- Case status
- Decided
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*868Per Curiam. In April 2001, the State of West Virginia indicted petitioner Denver A. Youngblood, Jr., on charges including abduction of three young women, Katara, Kimberly, and Wendy, and two instances of sexual assault upon Katara. The cases went to trial in 2003 in the Circuit Court of Morgan County, where a jury convicted Youngblood of two counts of sexual assau…
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