BURDEN v. ZANT

No. 88-8619.

903 F.2d 1352 (1990)

Jimmie BURDEN, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter ZANT, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Paula K. Smith, Office of the Atty. Gen., Mary Beth Westmoreland, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, FAY and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:

Petitioner, Jimmie Burden, Jr., is a Georgia prisoner convicted on four counts of murder and sentenced to death on three of those counts. After exhausting his remedies in the Georgia state courts, Burden filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, alleging inter alia that his trial counsel had a conflict of interest. The district court denied the petition, see...

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