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U.S. v. HIGGS

No. 10-7.

663 F.3d 726 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dustin John HIGGS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: November 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Angela Elleman , Federal Community Defender Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellant. Sandra Wilkinson , Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Leigh Skipper , Chief Federal Defender, Matthew Lawry , Michael Wiseman , Assistant Federal Defenders, Federal Community Defender Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Stephen H. Sachs , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Rod J. Rosenstein , United States Attorney, Deborah Johnston , Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge SHEDD and Judge KEENAN joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Chief Judge:

Petitioner Dustin John Higgs was convicted of three counts each of first-degree premeditated murder, see 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a), first-degree murder committed in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a kidnapping, see id., and kidnapping resulting in death, see 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(2), arising out of the January 27, 1996, murders of three young women in the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge...

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