HILL v. TURPIN

No. 97-8042.

135 F.3d 1411 (1998)

Floyd Ernest HILL, Petitioner-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Tony TURPIN, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, for Appellant.

Christopher M. Johnson, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, George K. Kendall, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York City, NY, for Appellee.

Before ANDERSON, CARNES and BARKETT Circuit Judges.


BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

Georgia Warden Tony Turpin ("the state") appeals from the district court's order granting in part Floyd Ernest Hill's petition for federal habeas corpus relief as to his death sentence. Hill cross-appeals from the district court's denial of all of his claims challenging the validity of his conviction, as well as from the denial of the balance of his claims pertaining to his death sentence. Because we find that the prosecution's repeated and...

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