Legal Opinion
Thomas Porter v. David Zook
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2018No. 16-18PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THACKER, Circuit Judge:
This death penalty case is before us for the second time. In 2007 Thomas Alexander Porter ("Appellant") was convicted in Virginia state court of capital murder for killing a Norfolk law enforcement officer, Stanley Reaves. He was sentenced to death.
After he pursued direct and collateral review in state court, Appellant filed the operative 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition in the district court, raising a host of challenges to his conviction and sentence. Chief among them was a claim that one of the jurors was biased against him. Specifically, when asked at voir dire whether any…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by39 opinions
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