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MAGWOOD v. SMITH

No 85-7270.

791 F.2d 1438 (1986)

Billy Joe MAGWOOD, Petitioner-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. Fred SMITH, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections; Willie E. Johnson, Warden, Holman Unit, Respondents-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 4, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.L. Chestnut, Turner & Williams, Robert H. Turner, Selma, Ala., for petitioner-appellant, cross-appellee.

Ed Carnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondents-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before VANCE and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Billy Joe Magwood, an Alabama state prisoner under sentence of death, petitioned the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging nine grounds for relief. The district court rejected eight of the alleged errors, but granted the writ because the state trial judge erroneously rejected two mitigating circumstances during the sentencing phase of trial. We affirm.

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