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WHITLEY v. BAIR

No. 85-4005.

802 F.2d 1487 (1986)

Richard L. WHITLEY, Appellant, v. Toni V. BAIR, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy M. Kaine (Little, Parsley & Cluverius, on brief) and Thomas M. Wolf (Mezzullo, McCandlish & Framme, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellant.

Richard B. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

Richard Lee Whitley, under sentence of death for the murder of Phoebe Parsons on July 25, 1980, appeals from the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. We find no merit in Whitley's contentions, and we affirm.

In its opinion denying Whitley's direct appeal, the Virginia Supreme Court fully summarized the...

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