OPINION AND ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
This case presents, among other things, the interesting question of whether and when the law-of-the-case doctrine applies to separate federal habeas cases arising out of the same state criminal proceeding.
Petitioner Billy Joe Magwood brings this petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his sentence of death, imposed at a 1986 resentencing hearing in Alabama...
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