BEVERLY v. JONES

No. 87-7312.

854 F.2d 412 (1988)

Matthew Lanier BEVERLY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Warden Mr. Charlie JONES and the Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Middlebrooks, Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore, Charlotte, N.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Rivard Melson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before HATCHETT and COX, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 17, 1988.

COX, Circuit Judge.

Matthew Beverly, an Alabama inmate serving consecutive sentences of life and sixty years for murder and rape, respectively, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because neither of the claims advanced by Beverly warrants habeas relief, we affirm.

I.

Beverly was convicted and sentenced to death by electrocution in May, 1979...

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