JONES v. CLARKE

No. 14-6590.

783 F.3d 987 (2015)

Rashaad Tiwania JONES, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harold W. CLARKE, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 22, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Rosemary Virginia Bourne, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant. Thomas Edward Vanderbloemen, Gallivan, White & Boyd, PA, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Mark R. Herring, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.

Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge SHEDD wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON joined. Judge GREGORY wrote a dissenting opinion.


Harold W. Clarke, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, appeals the federal habeas corpus order vacating Rashaad Tiwania Jones' state-court convictions and sentence. See Jones v. Clarke, 7 F.Supp.3d 626 (E.D.Va.2014). For the following reasons, we vacate that portion of the order granting habeas relief...

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