ABDUL-SALAAM v. SECRETARY OF PA DOC

No: 14-9001.

895 F.3d 254 (2018)

Seifullah ABDUL-SALAAM, Appellant v. SECRETARY OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Greene; Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview; The Attorney General of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; The District Attorney of the County of Cumberland.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: July 12, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Wiseman, Esq. , Law Office of Michael Wiseman, P.O. Box 120, Swarthmore, PA 19081, Ayanna Williams, Esq. , David L. Zuckerman, Esq. , Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 601 Walnut Street, The Curtis Center, Suite 540 West, Philadelphia, PA 19106, Counsel for Appellant.

David J. Freed, Esq. , Jaime M. Keating, Esq. , Charles J. Volkert, Jr., Esq. , Cumberland County Office of District Attorney, 1 Courthouse Square, 2nd Floor, Suite 202, Carlisle, PA 17013, Counsel for Appellees.

Before: CHAGARES, GREENAWAY, JR., and SHWARTZ, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

A jury found petitioner Seifullah Abdul-Salaam, Jr. ("Abdul-Salaam") guilty of first-degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy after a six-day trial in March 1995 in the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. After a one-day penalty phase hearing in which Abdul-Salaam's counsel presented...

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