Legal Opinion
Syvasky Lafayette Poyner v. Edward W. Murray, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, (Six Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 8, 1992No. 91-4001 to 91-4006PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
Syvasky Lafayette Poyner challenges the judgments of three Virginia state courts, each sentencing him to death. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied each of Poyner’s three petitions for writs of habeas corpus. We affirm.
Poyner was convicted of five counts of capital murder after three separate trials in the respective circuit courts of the Cities of Williamsburg, Hampton, and Newport News, Virginia. On June 6, 1984, Poyner was convicted after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Williamsburg for the capital…
2Cases cited50 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by105 opinions
- United States v. LovingCourt of Appeals for the Armed Forces · 1994
- Kenneth L. Wilson v. Fred W. Greene, Warden, Mecklenburg Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1998
- Ronald Bernard Bennett v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1996
- David M. Pruett v. Charles ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1993
- David Lee Fisher v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1998
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