BURDEN v. ZANT

No. 88-8619.

24 F.3d 1298 (1994)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Millard Farmer, Joseph M. Nursey, Atlanta, GA, John H. Blume, S.C. Death Penalty Resource Center, Columbia, SC, for appellant.

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

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and FAY, Senior Circuit Judge.


ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:

Jimmie Burden, Jr., is a Georgia prison inmate who was convicted in 1982 of four counts of murder for slaying a mother and her three young children; he was sentenced to death on three of those counts. After exhausting direct appeals 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...

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