United States Fourth Circuit

Denial of habeas claims after murder conviction and imposition of death sentence is affirmed, as 1) counsel were not ineffective for advising petitioner on defenses of voluntary intoxication and insanity, and 2) trial court did not fail to adequately consider mitigating evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/26/2003
• Published 08/26/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and GREGORY and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Marie Frances Donnelly, Midwest Center for Justice, Evanston, Illinois, for Appellant.  Katherine P. Baldwin, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF: Clifford L. Harrison, James C. Turk, Jr., Stone, Harrison & Turk, P.C., Radford, Virginia, for Appellant.  Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.