Charlie Young, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Cross-Appellee

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

On February 19, 1976, the petitioner, Charlie Young, Jr., was convicted of malice murder, armed robbery and robbery by intimidation by a jury in the Superior Court of Greene County, Georgia. The jury, following a presentencing hearing, recommended that Young be sentenced to death on the malice murder charge, and the court sentenced Young accordingly. The court also sentenced Young to life imprisonment on the armed robbery charge and to twenty years for robbery by intimidation.

After exhausting his state remedies, 1 Young commenced this habeas corpus proceeding in the…