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HANCE v. ZANT

No. 82-8342.

696 F.2d 940 (1983)

William Henry HANCE, Petitioner, v. Walter D. ZANT, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard M. Marks, Howard Lloyd Wieder, Gold, Farrell & Marks, John Charles Boger, New York City, for petitioner.

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

Before VANCE and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, District Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner William Henry Hance was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, of the murder of Brenda Gail Faison (a/k/a Gail Jackson) and of attempted theft by extortion. The jury sentenced him to death for the murder under Ga.Code Ann. § 27-2534.1(b)(7) and he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attempted extortion.

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the convictions and sentences. Hance...

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