Legal Opinion
Richard Longworth v. Jon E. Ozmint, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections Henry McMaster Attorney General, State of South Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 28, 2004No. 04-4PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Judge GREGORY joined.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
In 1991, Richard Longworth was convicted in a South Carolina state court for the murders of Alex Hopps and James Greene, employees of a Spartanburg, South Carolina movie theater that Long-worth and an associate robbed. Long-worth was sentenced to death. Following direct appeals and petitions for post-conviction relief in state courts, Longworth filed this petition in the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, raising 19…
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