United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed over his claim that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate evidence of the mitigating factor of mental incapacity due to organic brain dysfunction or mental retardation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2005
• Published 03/25/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Edward Nathan Siskel, WILMER, CUTLER, PICKERING, HALE & DORR, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Robert Quentin Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. On Brief:  David P. Donovan, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, L.L.P., Mclean, Virginia;  David W. Ogden, Lara Ann Englund, Eric J. Hougen, Kurt W. Meyers, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.