COLEMAN v. SAFFLE

No. 87-2011.

869 F.2d 1377 (1989)

Charles Troy COLEMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James SAFFLE, Warden, Oklahoma State Prison, Larry Meachum, Director, Department of Corrections, and Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Robert Henry, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandy Welch of Payne & Welch, Hugo, Okl. (John Thomas Hall, Tulsa, Okl., with her on the briefs) for petitioner-appellant.

David W. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. & Federal Divisions (Robert H. Henry, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, Susan Stewart Dickerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Deputy Chief, Crim. Div., M. Caroline Emerson, Sandra D. Howard, and Michael W. Elliott, Asst. Attys. Gen., with him on the briefs) State of Okl., Okl. City, Okl., for respondents-appellees.

Before HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge, and LOGAN and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Charles Troy Coleman, is under a sentence of death as a result of an Oklahoma state court conviction for first-degree murder. In this, his second federal petition for habeas corpus relief, Coleman argues that this court must vacate his death sentence because of the following alleged constitutional errors: (1) the sentencing jury found one of five aggravating circumstances was present — that the murder was "especially heinous...

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