BELL v. EVATT

No. 94-4016.

72 F.3d 421 (1995)

Larry Gene BELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections; T. Travis Medlock, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stephen G. Morrison, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Donald John Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Lauri J. Soles, Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Elizabeth Scott Moise, Daniel J. Westbrook, Columbia, South Carolina; John D. Delgado, Columbia, South Carolina; John H. Blume, Post-Conviction Defender Organization of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.

Before RUSSELL, MICHAEL, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge RUSSELL wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Judge MOTZ joined.

OPINION

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Larry Gene Bell, awaiting execution in South Carolina for kidnapping and brutally murdering Sharon Faye Smith, appeals the district court's denial of his final petition for writ of habeas corpus. The question before this Court, is whether any of Bell's numerous "eleventh-hour" complaints warrant habeas...

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