Legal Opinion
Darrell B. Grayson v. Leslie Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 16, 2001No. 00-15721PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
Darrell Grayson appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus in his capital case. In June 1982, Darrell Grayson was convicted of the capital murder of an elderly widow and sentenced to death in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Alabama. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253, the district court granted a Certificate of Appealability with respect to certain issues in Grayson’s § 2254 petition. After review and oral argument, we affirm the denial of Grayson’s § 2254 petition.
I. BACKGROUND
The judge who sentenced Grayson to death found these facts…
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