McCLESKEY v. KEMP

No. 84-8176.

753 F.2d 877 (1985)

Warren McCLESKEY, Petitioner-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Ralph KEMP, Warden, Respondent-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellant, cross-appellee.

Robert H. Stroup, Atlanta, Ga., John Charles Boger, Anthony G. Amsterdam, New York University-School of Law, New York City, for petitioner-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, RONEY, TJOFLAT, JAMES C. HILL, FAY, VANCE, KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, ALBERT J. HENDERSON, HATCHETT, R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


RONEY, Circuit Judge, with whom Judges TJOFLAT, JAMES C. HILL, FAY, VANCE, ALBERT J. HENDERSON and R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, join*:

This case was taken en banc principally to consider the argument arising in numerous capital cases that statistical proof shows the Georgia capital sentencing law is being administered in an unconstitutionally discriminatory and arbitrary and capricious matter. After a lengthy evidentiary hearing which...

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