United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of habeas petition in capital case is affirmed over claims that petitioner was denied: 1) effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel admitted without petitioner's consent that he was guilty of breaking and entering and second-degree murder; and 2) due process based on multiple instances of juror conduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2007
• Published 01/31/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Milton Gordon Widenhouse, Jr., Rudolf, Widen-House & Fialko, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Jill Ledford Cheek, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Mark E. Edwards, Edwards and Trenkle, P.L.L.C., Durham, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.