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HIGHTOWER v. SCHOFIELD

No. 00-15807.

365 F.3d 1008 (2004)

John Washington HIGHTOWER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Derrick SCHOFIELD, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 12, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Peirce (Court-Appointed), Timothy Keith Armstrong (Court-Appointed), Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Susan V. Boleyn, State Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner John Washington Hightower, a Georgia prisoner, seeks a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his 1988 convictions and sentences for capital murder. The district court denied his petition. We affirm.

I.

The Supreme Court of Georgia summarized the facts of this case as follows:

The defendant was married to Dorothy Hightower. Her brother stopped by their home early in the morning of July 12, 1987, to pick up...

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