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VANDROSS v. STIRLING

No. 18-6916.

986 F.3d 442 (2021)

Charles Nemon VANDROSS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bryan STIRLING, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, and Broad River Correctional Institution, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 26, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: E. Charles Grose, Jr. , GROSE LAW FIRM, LLC, Greenwood, South Carolina, for Appellant. Michael Douglas Ross , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best , BLUME FRANKLIN-BEST & YOUNG, LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Alan Wilson , Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka , Deputy Attorney General, Melody J. Brown , Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General, J. Anthony Mabry , Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the opinion, in which Judge Motz and Judge Richardson joined.

In his application for a writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Charles Vandross — who was convicted in a South Carolina state court for murder, burglary, kidnapping, and related crimes — claimed that his trial counsel's performance was constitutionally...

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