HILL v. OZMINT

No. 03-1.

339 F.3d 187 (2003)

David Clayton Hill, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jon E. Ozmint, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jerome Howard Nickerson, Jr., CENTER FOR CAPITAL LITIGATION, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Donald John Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Michael O'Connell, STIRLING & O'CONNELL, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant. Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.

Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge King wrote the opinion, in which Judge Michael and Judge DIANA GRIBBON Motz joined.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge:

In October of 1995, David Hill was sentenced to death for the murder of Major Spencer Guerry, the Deputy Police Chief for the City of Georgetown, South Carolina. After the South Carolina courts denied relief on both direct appeal and collateral review, Hill...

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