OKEN v. CORCORAN

No. 99-27.

220 F.3d 259 (2000)

Steven H. OKEN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas CORCORAN, Warden of the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center and the Maryland Penitentiary; J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 18, 2000


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Fred Warren Bennett, Bennett & Nathans, L.L.P., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. Ann Norman Bosse, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Christopher M. Davis, Davis & Davis, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

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


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON joined. Judge MICHAEL wrote a concurring opinion, concurring in all but Part II.A. of the majority opinion and concurring in the judgment.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Steven Howard Oken, a Maryland inmate under sentence of death, appeals from the district court's denial of his application under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a writ of...

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