CROWE v. HALL

No. 05-16918.

490 F.3d 840 (2007)

Samuel David CROWE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Hilton HALL, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Grunewald Fort (Court-Appointed), Leslie S. Thomasson, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP, Palmer Singleton, Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Mary Elizabeth Wells (Court-Appointed), Fed. Def. Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Crowe.

Susan V. Boleyn, State Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Hall.

Before BIRCH, BARKETT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

Samuel David Crowe, who pleaded guilty to the murder of Joe Pala and was sentenced to death, now appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We must decide whether Crowe has overcome the procedural default of four issues he raised for the first time in his state habeas petition. Crowe alleged that, during his sentencing trial, (1) the state withheld evidence that the victim's coworkers had been investigated for drug use; ...

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