Legal Opinion
Herbert Russell Bassette v. Charles E. Thompson, Mary Sue Terry, Attorney General of Virginia
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1990No. 89-4010PublishedCited by 198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:
Herbert Russell Bassette was convicted of capital murder by a jury on August 22, 1980, and was sentenced to death. He appealed his conviction without success to the Supreme Court of Virginia, see Bassette v. Commonwealth, 222 Va. 844, 284 S.E.2d 844 (1981). He was also unsuccessful with his petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, Bassette v. Virginia, 456 U.S. 938, 102 S.Ct. 1996, 72 L.Ed.2d 458 (1982). He petitioned for habe-as corpus in the Virginia state courts, and after four days of hearings and the taking of extensive testimony, the Circuit…
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