Thomas Milton Wilson v. Charlie Jones, Warden

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

In a retrial following a reversal of an initial conviction, the appellant, Thomas Wilson, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Wilson’s direct appeal, which raised a number of issue's, was rejected by the Alabama Supreme Court. In late 1984, Wilson filed a habeas corpus petition in federal district court. That court dismissed the petition without prejudice for failure to exhaust state remedies. In June of 1985, Wilson filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in state court; he raised a number of issues, including the alleged…