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EVANS v. SMITH

No. 99-22.

220 F.3d 306 (2000)

Vernon Lee EVANS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Willie SMITH, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta; J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 17, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gerald Ira Fisher, Fisher & Hansen, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Annabelle Louise Lisic, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Susan A. MacIntyre, Mark S. Morelli, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 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 WILKINS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed and dismissed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge WILLIAMS joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Chief Judge:

Appellant Vernon Lee Evans was convicted and sentenced to death by Maryland juries for the contract murders of David Scott Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy. Evans now raises a number of claims in asking the federal courts to vacate his conviction and/or sentence. Finding no merit in these...

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