Legal Opinion
David Felton v. Talmadge Barnett Attorney General of the State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 10, 1990No. 89-6684PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:
David Felton was convicted of rape in the Durham County Superior Court on September 12, 1972. There has never been any question of his guilt. He was caught in the act of raping a Duke coed by two campus policemen. His conviction was affirmed by the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Felton, 283 N.C. 368, 196 S.E.2d 239 (1973). Subsequently, he filed fourteen different petitions for appropriate relief in the State Courts of North Carolina, and he has filed four petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the federal courts. He has unsuccessfully appealed to this court…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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