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BARNES v. JOYNER

No. 13-5.

751 F.3d 229 (2014)

William Leroy BARNES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Carlton JOYNER, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 5, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Milton Gordon Widenhouse, Jr. , Rudolf, Widenhouse & Fialko, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant. Jonathan Porter Babb, Sr. , North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: George B. Currin , Currin & Currin, PA, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Roy Cooper , Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge THACKER wrote the opinion, in which Judge FLOYD joined. Judge AGEE wrote a dissenting opinion.

THACKER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner William Leroy Barnes ("Barnes"), an inmate on North Carolina's death-row, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus against Carlton Joyner, Warden of the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina (hereinafter, the "State"). In 1994, after a jury trial in North Carolina state court, Barnes was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Immediately after the jury returned its sentencing...

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