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BARFIELD v. HARRIS

No. 82-6424.

719 F.2d 58 (1983)

Margie Bullard BARFIELD, Appellant, v. Kenneth W. HARRIS, Supt., N.C. Correctional Center for Women; Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of N.C., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 22, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Burr, III, West Palm Beach, Fla. (James D. Little, Singleton, Murray, Harlow & Little, Fayetteville, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Richard N. League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas F. Moffitt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 22, 1983.

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a denial of habeas corpus relief to the petitioner who had been sentenced to death after a conviction of murder by arsenic poisoning. In the guilt phase of the trial, evidence was introduced that she had similarly murdered four other persons, including her mother and former husband. Indeed, she admitted...

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