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RICHARDSON v. KORNEGAY

No. 18-6488.

3 F.4th 687 (2021)

James Earl RICHARDSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Superintendent Joyce KORNEGAY, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 8, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Lide E. Paterno , AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Nicholaos George Vlahos , NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Heather L. Rattelade , RICHARDSON LAW FIRM, PLLC, Fayetteville, North Carolina; Z.W. Julius Chen , Margaret O. Rusconi , AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Joshua H. Stein , Attorney General, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Richardson wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Agee joined.

In 2011, a North Carolina jury found James Richardson guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied building resulting in serious bodily injury. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murder convictions (along with...

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