BURCH v. CORCORAN

No. 01-4.

273 F.3d 577 (2001)

Heath William BURCH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas R. CORCORAN, Warden; J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 28, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Henry Mark Stichel, Gohn, Hankey & Stichel, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. Annabelle Louise Lisic, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON and Judge NIEMEYER joined.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge.

In 1996, a jury in Prince George's County, Maryland, convicted appellant Heath William Burch of the double murder of Robert and Cleo Davis, and it sentenced Burch to death. Burch has unsuccessfully sought habeas corpus relief in the District of Maryland, and he requests that we reverse the district court...

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