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BUCHANAN v. ANGELONE

No. 96-4.

103 F.3d 344 (1996)

Douglas McArthur BUCHANAN, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ronald J. ANGELONE, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; Commonwealth of Virginia, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gerald Thomas Zerkin, Gerald T. Zerkin & Associates, Richmond, VA, for Appellant. Katherine P. Baldwin, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Donald R. Lee, Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, Richmond, VA; Frank K. Friedman, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P.L.C., Roanoke, VA, for Appellant. James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General of Virginia, Office Of The Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellees.

Before HALL and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Senior Judge BUTZNER wrote the opinion, in which Judge HALL and Judge ERVIN joined.

OPINION

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

In 1988, Douglas McArthur Buchanan, Jr., was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to death. After exhausting his state remedies, he petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition, he alleged numerous constitutional defects in the state court proceedings...

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