United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's death sentence is affirmed over his claim that his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were denied when a local newspaper reporter, who had extensively covered his first trial, was permitted to serve as a juror in his sentencing proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2005
• Published 05/03/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Kenneth Justin Rose, Center For Death Penalty Litigation, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Steven Mark Arbogast, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:Mark J. Kleinschmidt, Center For Death Penalty Litigation, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.