United States Fourth Circuit

Defense counsel's performance was not constitutionally deficient for advising the client not to testify on his own behalf, or for failing to call as witnesses three inmates who were allegedly prepared to testify.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2004
• Published 04/26/2004

Judges

• Before LUTTIG, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:John Bottini, Third Year Law Student, Appellate Litigation Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA, for Appellant.  Stacey Denise Haynes, Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, S.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:Neal Lawrence Walters, Charlottesville, VA, for Appellant.  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Columbia, S.C., for Appellee.