United States Fourth Circuit

18 USC 3005 creates an absolute right to two attorneys in cases where the death penalty may be imposed, even when the government does not, in fact, seek the death penalty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2001
• Published 03/30/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and KISER, Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  William Fletcher Nettles, IV, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Florence, South Carolina, for Appellant. Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Rene Josey, United States Attorney, Alfred W. Bethea, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.