United States Fourth Circuit

A 28 U.S.C.A. section 2254 petitioner failed to show the denial of any constitutional right in numerous claims, including (1) government elicited perjurious witness testimony, and (2) denial of effective assistance based on counsel's failure to impeach a witness with a prior inconsistent statement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/28/2003
• Published 03/28/2003

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Anthony Frazier King, Wallace, King, Marraro & Branson, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Pamela Anne Rumpz, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF: Steven D. Rosenfield, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant.   Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.