Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied September 29, 1998.
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
James D. Vancleave was convicted of capital murder in 1978 and is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. After exhausting state court remedies, Vancleave filed a pro se federal habeas petition in 1984, which the district court dismissed in January 1987. In June 1996, after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty...
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