United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of an inmate's petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a murder conviction and death sentence is affirmed over his challenges regarding: 1) jury instructions; 2) prosecutorial misconduct; 3) defendant's absence from voir dire; 4) comments on defendant's post-arrest silence; and 5) ineffective assistance of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/04/2006
• Published 08/04/2006

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BRISCOE, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Autry, Oklahoma City, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Seth S. Branham, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, with him on the briefs), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.