Dismissed by published opinion. Senior Judge HAMILTON wrote the opinion, in which Judge LUTTIG and Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ joined.
OPINION
HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge
On January 19, 1994, in the Circuit Court for Virginia Beach, Virginia, Russel William Burket (Burket) pled guilty to, inter alia, capital murder, see Va.Code Ann. § 18.2-31. For that crime, the state trial court sentenced him to death. After exhausting his state...
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