HARBISON v. BELL

No. 07-8521.

129 S.Ct. 1481 (2009)

556 U.S. 180

173 L.Ed.2d 347

Edward Jerome HARBISON, Petitioner, v. Ricky BELL, Warden.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 1, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana C. Hansen Chavis , Knoxville, TN, for petitioner.

William M. Jay , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the judgment below.

Andrew J. Pincus , Charles A. Rothfeld , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, Dan M. Kahan , Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Dana C. Hansen Chavis , Counsel of Record, Stephen M. Kissinger , Knoxville, TN, for Petitioner.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General & Reporter, State of Tennessee, Michael E. Moore , Solicitor General, Gordon W. Smith , Associate Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Nashville, Tennessee, for Respondent.


Petitioner Edward Jerome Harbison was sentenced to death by a Tennessee court in 1983. In 1997, after the state courts rejected challenges to his conviction and sentence, the Federal District Court appointed the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee to represent him in filing a petition...

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