United States Fourth Circuit

Denial of death sentenced inmate's habeas petition is affirmed over claims that: 1) petitioner's due process rights were violated by the admission in his sentencing trial of evidence relating to an unadjudicated murder as a "course of conduct" aggravator; and 2) a police officer's Miranda warnings, which included the assertion that petitioner could be required to pay for an appointed lawyer, contravened his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/01/2006
• Decided 02/01/2007
• Published 02/01/2007

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jennifer Harjo, Smith, Smith & Harjo, Wilmington, North Carolina;  Nora Henry Hargrove, Wilmington, North Carolina, for Appellant.   Steven Mark Arbogast, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.