Legal Opinion
Joseph Earl Bates v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 23, 2002No. 02-4PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Senior Judge HAMILTON joined.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Chief Judge.
Appellant Joseph Earl Bates was sentenced to death for the murder of Charles Edwin Jenkins. Bates does not contest the fact that he committed the murder. After exhausting state challenges to the sentence imposed by the state courts, Bates petitioned the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court found no merit in his claims and dismissed…
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