HUNT v. LEE

No. 01-28.

291 F.3d 284 (2002)

Henry Lee HUNT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.C. LEE, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: D. Stuart Meiklejohn, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant. Gerald Patrick Murphy, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department Of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Respondent-Appellee. ON BRIEF: Steven L. Holley, Richard C. Pepperman, II, Brent J. McIntosh, New York, New York; James R. Parish, Fayetteville, North Carolina, for Petitioner-Appellant. Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before NIEMEYER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.


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

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.

In 1985, Henry Lee Hunt was convicted in the Superior Court of Robeson County, North Carolina, of two counts of capital murder for the contract killing of Jackie Ransom and the witness-elimination killing of Larry Jones.

On appeal from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas...

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