Legal Opinion
James Lee Spencer v. Walter D. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 13, 1983No. 82-8408PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
James Lee Spencer was convicted of murder, aggravated assault, and escape in Georgia state court in 1975. He was sentenced to death for the murder charge and to two concurrent ten year terms for the assault and escape charges. After an unsuccessful effort to obtain a writ of habeas corpus in state court, Spencer brought this petition for a federal writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. The district court denied the petition. We vacate the district court’s judgment in part and remand for evidentiary hearings on two of Spencer’s claims.
I. BACKGROUND
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