GRIFFIN v. MARTIN

No. 85-6581.

785 F.2d 1172 (1986)

Theodore GRIFFIN, Appellant, v. George N. MARTIN, III, Warden; Attorney General of the State of S. C., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1986.

Rehearing Granted April 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Rose Kornreich, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Clinical Program, Georgetown University Law Center (Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Samuel Dash, Director, Martha J. Tomich, Appellate Law Fellow, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant.

Donald J. Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN, SPROUSE, and SNEEDEN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing En Banc Granted April 28, 1986.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Habeas corpus petitioner, Theodore Griffin, was, on September 30, 1980, convicted of murder in the Court of General Sessions for Richland County, South Carolina. An appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court was unavailing.1 On the filing on April 6, 1983 by Griffin of an application to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina...

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