DARDEN v. DUGGER

No. 86-3705.

825 F.2d 287 (1987)

Willie Jasper DARDEN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard L. DUGGER, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Helm Spalding, Office of Capital Collateral Representative, James Lohman, Mark Evan Olive, Robert Augustus Harper, Jr., Tallahassee, Fla., for petitioner-appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, Fla., for respondent-appellee.

Before FAY, JOHNSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


FAY, Circuit Judge:

Willie Jasper Darden ("Petitioner"), a Florida prisoner under sentence of death, appeals the district court's order dismissing his third petition for writ of habeas corpus without a hearing. Because all issues raised are either successive and have been previously heard and determined or have been brought up and abandoned, thereby constituting an abuse of the writ, we affirm.

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