United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where the state trial court committed harmless error in excluding evidence of remorse from plaintiff's sentencing hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2005
• Published 03/14/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER, MICHAEL, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Daniel Kanin Shatz, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant. Steven Franklin Bryant, Assistant Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Jennifer Harjo, Smith, Smith & Harjo, Wilmington, North Carolina, for Appellant. Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.