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EATON v. ANGELONE

No. 97-15.

139 F.3d 990 (1998)

Dennis Wayne EATON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ronald ANGELONE, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Evan Olive, Tallahassee, FL; Ross Scott Haine, Sr., Lexington, VA, for Appellant. Pamela Anne Rumpz, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Richard Cullen, Attorney General of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and HAMILTON and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON and Judge MICHAEL joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Chief Judge:

Dennis Wayne Eaton was sentenced to death for the murder of Virginia State Trooper Jerry L. Hines. He appeals the district court's dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the judgment.

I.

Because Eaton's claims largely focus on alleged defects in his trial...

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