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WILLIAMS v. BEARD

No. 07-9002.

637 F.3d 195 (2011)

Terrance WILLIAMS, Appellant v. Jeffrey BEARD, Commissioner, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; Louis B. Folino, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Greene; Frank Tennis, Acting Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview; The District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia; The Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: March 9, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helen Marino , Michael Wiseman (argued), Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.

John W. Goldsborough (argued), Office of the District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.

Before: SMITH, CHAGARES, and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

Twenty-five years ago, petitioner Terrance Williams was tried and convicted of first degree murder for the killing of Amos Norwood. A jury then returned a sentence of death. After two decades of appeals in the Pennsylvania state courts, Williams filed a petition for federal habeas review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The District Court denied the petition but certified two questions for our review, to wit: (1) whether trial...

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