United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of habeas petition over claim that defense counsel ignored petitioner's instruction to appeal his state convictions is affirmed where the Supreme Court of Virginia's decision to dismiss the habeas petition raising the same claim was not based on an unreasonable determination of the facts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2007
• Published 07/23/2007

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Geoff Clemens, Student Advocate, Charleston School of Law, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Leah Ann Darron, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Lorri Shealy Unumb, Professor, Charleston School of Law, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.