United States Fourth Circuit

A habeas petitioner convicted of capital murder and related crimes failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of any of his constitutionally protected rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/29/2002
• Decided 01/10/2003
• Published 01/10/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Kimberly Candace Stevens, Stevens & Withrow, P.L.L.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina;  Ann Bach Petersen, Glover & Petersen, P.A., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Edwin William Welch, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Roy Cooper, Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.