David Junior Brown v. Gary Dixon, Warden, Central Prison, David Junior Brown v. Gary Dixon, Warden, Central Prison

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

David Junior Brown is a prisoner of the State of North Carolina under two sentences of death for first-degree murder. Brown advanced thirty challenges to his conviction and sentence in his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied relief from the conviction on seventeen grounds. The court ordered relief from sentence on three claims and left the remaining ten, all bearing on the penalty phase of Brown’s bifurcated trial, unaddressed. Brown v. Rice, 693 F.Supp. 381 (W.D.N.C.1988). We reverse the portion of the order granting relief from…