WINGO v. BUTLER

No. 87-4439.

820 F.2d 116 (1987)

Jimmy C. WINGO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Hilton BUTLER, Warden Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Selcov, Ward J. Oliver, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Stephen M. Latimer, East Brunswick, N.J., F. Ray Mouton, Lafayette, La., for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., Henry N. Brown, Dist. Atty., Benton, La., for respondent-appellee.

Before GEE, REAVLEY and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Jimmy Wingo has been sentenced to death by the Louisiana court for the fourth time for the murders he committed in 1982. We studied his arguments and the full trial record upon his prior habeas appeal. See Wingo v. Blackburn, 783 F.2d 1046 (5th Cir.1986), on rehearing 786 F.2d 654. In this successive writ petitioner raises seven points and thereby repeats some of his arguments of...

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