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BASSETTE v. THOMPSON

No. 89-4010.

915 F.2d 932 (1990)

Herbert Russell BASSETTE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles E. THOMPSON, Mary Sue Terry, Attorney General of Virginia, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Howell Wright, Jr., argued, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., for petitioner-appellant.

Linwood Theodore Wells, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, argued, Office of Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for respondents-appellees.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and CHAPMAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Herbert Russell Bassette was convicted of capital murder by a jury on August 22, 1980, and was sentenced to death. He appealed his conviction without success to the Supreme Court of Virginia, see Bassette v. Commonwealth, 222 Va. 844, 284 S.E.2d 844 (1981). He was also unsuccessful with his petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, Bassette v. Virginia, 456 U.S. 938, 102 S...

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