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KNIGHTON v. MULLIN

No. 00-6442.

293 F.3d 1165 (2002)

Robert Wesley KNIGHTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Mike MULLIN, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 14, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Stuart of Stuart, Frieda & Hammond, P.C., Duncan, Oklahoma (Don J. Gutteridge, Jr., Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs), for Petitioner-Appellant.

Robert L. Whittaker, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, with him on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Robert Wesley Knighton appeals the denial of habeas relief, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, from two Oklahoma first degree murder convictions and death sentences. A jury convicted Knighton of shooting to death Richard and Virginia Denney during Knighton's multi-state crime spree. Knighton claims 1) the trial court's admitting evidence of the many other crimes Knighton committed during his four-day crime spree resulted in a fundamentally...

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