DUREN v. HOPPER

No. 97-6650.

161 F.3d 655 (1998)

David Ray DUREN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joe HOPPER, Commissioner of Alabama Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rory FitzPatrick, Kirkpatrck & Lockhart, LLP, Matthew J. Tuttle, Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP, Boston, MS, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Beth Jackson Hughes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before ANDERSON, COX and DUBINA, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

David Ray Duren appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, in which he seeks relief from his conviction of capital murder and from his sentence of death. On the evening of October 20, 1983, sixteen year-old Charles Leonard picked up his girlfriend, sixteen year-old Kathleen Bedsole, in his father's Oldsmobile. On their date they were planning to visit some haunted...

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