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WILLIAMS v. CAIN

No. 96-31167.

125 F.3d 269 (1997)

Dobie Gillis WILLIAMS, Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Burl CAIN, Acting Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, Respondent-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 3, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Fraser, Clinton E. Cutler, John M. Koneck, Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, MN, Nicholas Joseph Trenticosta, Loyola Death Penalty Resource Center, New Orleans, LA, for Williams.

Dorothy Ann Pendergast, Metairie, LA, Don M. Burkett, Burkett & Chevallier, Many, LA, Charles Blaylock Adams, Jones & Adams, Couchatta, LA, for Cain.

Before JOLLY, BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Dobie Gillis Williams has been sentenced to death by the state of Louisiana. In this federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus he challenges both his conviction and death sentence on multiple grounds. The district court granted the petition on the ground that Williams had received ineffective assistance of counsel, but only at his sentencing hearing, and thus set aside the death sentence unless Louisiana conducted a new sentencing...

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