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JEFFERS v. LEEKE

No. 87-7112.

835 F.2d 522 (1987)

Frank Durant JEFFERS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. William D. LEEKE; T. Travis Medlock, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 15, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Zelenka, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., William A. Ready, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellants.

James B. Richardson, Jr., Columbia, S.C., for appellee.

Before SPROUSE and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and BOYLE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 20, 1988.

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

The State of South Carolina appeals from the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus for state inmate Frank Jeffers on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. We reverse and remand with directions to dismiss the petition.

I.

On March 8, 1981 Petitioner Frank Jeffers shot and killed his wife Tammie during a family quarrel at the home of her parents...

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