Mayes v. Gibson

JOHN C. PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1990, Petitioner William Raymond Mayes was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He was, sentenced to death for the former and to ten years’ imprisonment for the latter. After exhausting his direct and collateral appeals in the Oklahoma courts, Mayes v. State, 887 P.2d 1288 (Okla.Crim.App.1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1194, 115 S.Ct. 1260, 131 L.Ed.2d 140 (1995); Mayes v. State of Oklahoma, 921 P.2d 367 (Okla.Crim.App.1996), Mr. Mayes filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for habeas corpus in federal court, asserting…