FREY v. FULCOMER

No. 95-9007.

132 F.3d 916 (1997)

Roderick Herman FREY, Appellant, v. Thomas A. FULCOMER, Warden, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Dunham, (argued), Center for Legal Education Advocacy & Defense Assistance, Philadelphia, PA, Louis M. Natali, Jr. (argued), Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, PA, Penn B. Glazier, Lancaster, PA, for Appellant.

Joseph C. Madenspacher, District Attorney, John A. Kenneff (argued), First Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney, Lancaster, PA, for Appellee.

Before: BECKER, ROTH, and McKEE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Roderick Frey, who was convicted by a Pennsylvania state court jury of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to death, from a final order of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Frey's appeal requires us to consider whether the jury charge at the penalty phase of his trial violated the Eighth Amendment as construed in Mills v. Maryland, ...

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