United States Fourth Circuit

Petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, during the jury selection and sentencing phases of his trial, are denied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2003
• Published 08/06/2003

Judges

• Before WIDENER, WILKINSON, and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John Dewey Elliott, Law Office of John D. Elliott, Columbia, South Carolina;  George Raymond McElveen, III, McElveen & McElveen, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  William Edgar Salter, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.