YOUNG v. CATOE

Nos. 99-6, 99-8.

205 F.3d 750 (2000)

Kevin Dean YOUNG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William D. CATOE, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Charles M. Condon, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees. Kevin Dean Young, 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: February 29, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Daniel J. Westbrook, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. William Edgar Salter, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: John D. Delgado, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Charles M. Condon, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.

Before WILLIAMS, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges.


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

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge:

Kevin Dean Young, imprisoned in South Carolina under a sentence of death, appeals the district court's denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. The lower court rejected Young's claims that (1) his lawyer rendered ineffective assistance during the guilt phase of Young's murder trial; and (2) his...

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