TUCKER v. CATOE

Nos. 99-14, 99-15.

221 F.3d 600 (2000)

Richard Anthony TUCKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William D. CATOE, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Charles M. Condon, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees. Richard Anthony Tucker, Petitioner-Appellee, v. William D. Catoe, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Charles M. Condon, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Thomas Ross Haggard, Ridgeway, South Carolina, for Appellant. Donald John Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Teresa L. Norris, Center for Capital Litigation, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge MICHAEL joined.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge:

Richard Anthony Tucker, convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the state courts of South Carolina, appeals from the district court's dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Finding no error, we must affirm the judgment of the district court.

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