Rehearing En Banc Denied September 9, 2004.
NELSON, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which COOK, J., joined. CLAY, J. (pp. 391-94), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order granting a writ of habeas corpus. The key issue is whether the state trial court's refusal to hold an evidentiary hearing on certain ineffective assistance claims which the petitioner had asserted in a timely...
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