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POYNER v. MURRAY

Nos. 91-4001 to 91-4006.

964 F.2d 1404 (1992)

Syvasky Lafayette POYNER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Edward W. MURRAY, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee. (Six Cases)

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Hoke Slaughter, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Va., argued (Catherine Currin Hammond, Dorothy C. Young, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Harry M. Johnson, III, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., on brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Katherine Baldwin Toone, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., argued (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richard B. Smith, Marla L. Graff, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

Syvasky Lafayette Poyner challenges the judgments of three Virginia state courts, each sentencing him to death. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied each of Poyner's three petitions for writs of habeas corpus. We affirm.

Poyner was convicted of five counts of capital murder after three separate trials in the respective circuit courts of the Cities of Williamsburg, Hampton, and...

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