WILLIS v. KEMP

No. 82-8677.

838 F.2d 1510 (1988)

Henry WILLIS, III, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ralph KEMP, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Millard C. Farmer, Joseph M. Nursey, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., W. Davis Hewitt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary Beth Westmoreland, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Henry Willis III, is a Georgia death row inmate, having been convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death by the Superior Court of Bleckley County, Georgia for the shooting of a Ray City, Georgia policeman.1 He challenges the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In Willis v. Zant, 720 F.2d 1212 (11th Cir.1983), cert. denied...

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