Victor Dewayne TAYLOR, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
Scott JORDAN, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
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Argued En Banc: March 3, 2021.
Decided and Filed: August 23, 2021.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED EN BANC: Dennis J. Burke , DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADVOCACY, La Grange, Kentucky, for Appellant. S. Chad Meredith , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF KENTUCKY, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellee. ON SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF: Dennis J. Burke , DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADVOCACY, La Grange, Kentucky, Thomas M. Ransdell , Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellant. S. Chad Meredith , OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF KENTUCKY, Frankfort, Kentucky, for Appellee.
KETHLEDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which SUTTON, C.J., and BATCHELDER, COOK, BUSH, LARSEN, NALBANDIAN, READLER, and MURPHY, JJ., joined. MOORE, J. (pp. 641-45), in which CLAY, WHITE, STRANCH, and DONALD, JJ., joined, COLE, J. (pp. 645-51), in which MOORE, CLAY, WHITE, STRANCH, and DONALD, JJ., joined in all but Section I.A.i., GRIFFIN, J. (pp. 651-62), in which GIBBONS, J., joined in full and MOORE, CLAY, WHITE, STRANCH, and DONALD, JJ., joined in all but footnote 1, and WHITE, J. (pp. 662-65), in which MOORE, CLAY, STRANCH and DONALD, JJ., joined in full and GIBBONS, J., joined in Parts I and II, delivered separate dissenting opinions.
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
Victor Taylor murdered two high-school students in 1984, for which a jury convicted him of capital murder and recommended a sentence of death. The trial judge imposed that sentence and the Kentucky Supreme Court repeatedly denied Taylor's claims for relief. Taylor eventually filed a federal habeas petition...
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