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WILLIAMS v. WARDEN

Record No. 960534.

487 S.E.2d 194 (1997)

Terry WILLIAMS v. WARDEN OF THE MECKLENBURG CORRECTIONAL CENTER.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 6, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian A. Powers (Francis J. Martorana; Ellen O. Boardman; Linda J. Tarlow; O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, on brief), Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Robert Q. Harris, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on briefs), for respondent.

Present: All the Justices.

UPON A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

COMPTON, Justice.

This is the first habeas corpus petition filed by a prisoner held under a sentence of death that we have addressed in a published opinion since the applicable statute was amended effective July 1, 1995. See Acts 1995, ch. 503.

The 1995 amendment to Code § 8.01-654 added subsection (C). It provides that this Court shall have "exclusive jurisdiction" to consider and award writs of habeas...

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