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HILL v. BLACK

No. 87-4922.

887 F.2d 513 (1989)

Alvin HILL, Petitioner-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. Lee Roy BLACK, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 12, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellants cross-appellees.

James P. Kreindler, Daniel M. Kolko, New York City, and Percy Stanfield, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner-appellee cross-appellant.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and POLITZ and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 12, 1989.*

CLARK, Chief Judge:

I.

On November 26, 1980, a jury of the Circuit Court of Desoto County, Mississippi, found Alvin Hill guilty of capital murder and sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court of Mississippi upheld both the verdict and the sentence on direct appeal. Hill v. State, 432 So.2d 427 (Miss.1983), cert. denied...

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