JOHNSON v. ALABAMA

No. 99-13198

256 F.3d 1156 (2001)

Anthony Keith Johnson, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of Alabama, John E. Nagle, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 10, 2001


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Schafer, Covington & Burling, Debra Ann Palmer, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

J. Clayton Crenshaw, Montgomery, AL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.


MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider the request for a writ of habeas corpus by Petitioner Anthony Keith Johnson, a state prisoner in Alabama. Johnson was indicted and convicted of capital murder in the 1984 shooting death of Kenneth Cantrell in Morgan County, Alabama. The state trial court imposed a sentence of death. That judgment was later upheld on direct appeal and again on collateral attack by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. In this federal...

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