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COOPER v. TAYLOR

No. 93-7352.

70 F.3d 1454 (1995)

Kamathene Adonia COOPER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. P. Douglas TAYLOR, Warden; T. Travis Medlock, The Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1995.

Rehearing Granted; Opinion Vacated January 26, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Bonnie Ilene Robin-Vergeer, Supervising Attorney, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Steven H. Goldblatt, Adam C. Ciongoli, Student Counsel, Susan Curtin Gouldin, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

Before NIEMEYER, HAMILTON, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing En Banc Granted; Opinion Vacated January 26, 1996.

Reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON joined. Judge NIEMEYER wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a state court's decision to admit into evidence in a criminal trial a defendant's lengthy and detailed taped confession made without...

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