ELLIS v. MULLIN

No. 01-6004.

312 F.3d 1201 (2002)

Cyril Wayne ELLIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Mike MULLIN, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 10, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott W. Braden, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Nancy E. Connally, Assistant Oklahoma Attorney General (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Oklahoma Attorney General, and Jennifer B. Miller, Assistant Oklahoma Attorney General, on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MURPHY, Circuit Judge.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Cyril Wayne Ellis is a schizophrenic man who went on a ninety-minute killing spree that left three people dead and four wounded in Oklahoma in 1986. Ellis received three death sentences. This case comes to us on appeal from the district court's denial of Ellis's petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Ellis raises a host of claims in his habeas petition, most of them related to his mental illness.1...

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