Legal Opinion
Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 15, 1994No. 88-8619PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
Jimmie Burden, Jr., is a Georgia prison inmate who was convicted in 1982 of four counts of murder for slaying a mother and her three young children; he was sentenced to death on three of those counts. After exhausting direct appeals in the Georgia state courts, Burden filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988), seeking vacation of his convictions and his death sentences. Burden alleged, inter alia, that his…
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