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BUTLER v. AIKEN

No. 87-4004.

846 F.2d 255 (1988)

Horace BUTLER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James AIKEN, Warden, Central Correctional Institute; Travis Medlock, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Thomas Cobb, Jr. (Belk, Howard, Cobb & Chandler, P.A., on brief). for petitioner-appellant.

Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., for respondents-appellees.

Before RUSSELL, HALL, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Horace Butler, a South Carolina inmate currently awaiting execution for the crime of murder, appeals an order of the district court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.

I.

Butler was tried by a South Carolina state court in 1981 for the 1980 murder of Pamela Lane. According to the facts developed at trial, Lane...

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