United States Fourth Circuit

Death row inmate raises four meritless points of error on direct appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2005
• Published 04/06/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, WILLIAMS, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Kenneth Winston Starr, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Katherine P. Baldwin, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Robert E. Lee, Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, Charlottesville, Virginia;  Thomas D. Yannucci, Ashley C. Parrish, Steven A. Engel, Sookyoung Shin, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.