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PARKER v. ALLEN

No. 05-16907.

565 F.3d 1258 (2009)

John Forrest PARKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard F. ALLEN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Saunders (Court-Appointed), Law Office of Thomas J. Saunders, Baltimore, MD, for Parker.

Corey Landon Maze, J. Clayton Crenshaw, Montgomery, AL, for Allen.

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant John Forrest Parker appeals the district court's judgment dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and denying him relief. Parker sought a vacation of his 1988 conviction for capital murder and his death sentence. After the district court denied Parker's Fed.R.Civ.P. 59 motion for reconsideration, Parker appealed and the district court issued a certificate of appealability...

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