THOMPSON v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 85-3215.

784 F.2d 1103 (1986)

David Leslie THOMPSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT and Jim Smith, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary Cakmis, Federal Public Defender, Jacksonville, Fla., for petitioner-appellant.

Michael Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, Fla., for respondents-appellees.

Before HILL, Circuit Judge, TUTTLE and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judges.


HILL, Circuit Judge:

FACTS

Appellant David Thompson stabbed a seventeen year-old co-worker in the back and chest with a large knife before numerous witnesses in the restaurant where they worked. Some of the witnesses, appellant's co-workers, had heard him threaten to "get even" with the victim because he had apparently struck appellant during an altercation the previous day. The police apprehended appellant, with the bloody knife in his pocket, a short distance...

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