ALLEN v. LAWHORN

No. 10-24.

131 S.Ct. 562 (2010)

Richard F. ALLEN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Charles LAWHORN.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 13, 2010.


The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Justice SCALIA, with whom Justice THOMAS and Justice ALITO join, dissenting from denial of certiorari.

Respondent James Lawhorn was sentenced to death by an Alabama court in 1989. Nearly two decades later, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted him habeas relief on the ground that his counsel had rendered...

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