ROACH v. AIKEN

No. 86-4001.

781 F.2d 379 (1986)

James Terry ROACH, Appellant, v. Warden James AIKEN, Central Correctional Institution, Columbia, South Carolina, and T. Travis Medlock, Attorney General for South Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Farrell, O. Grady Query, and John H. Blume, III, for appellant.

Donald J. Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen.), for appellees.

Before WIDENER, ERVIN and SNEEDEN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is the second occasion on which the question of the death sentence imposed in Roach's case has been before us.

The first occasion was in case No. 84-4003 decided March 20, 1985, 757 F.2d 1463. The opinion in No. 84-4003 recited the procedural history of this case which includes the appeal of the criminal conviction to the South Carolina Supreme Court; a petition for state post-conviction relief; and the previous...

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