Legal Opinion
Kenneth Bernard Rouse v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2003No. 01-12PublishedCited by 523 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINS and Judges WIDENER, WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, TRAXLER, and SHEDD concurred. Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ wrote a separate dissenting opinion in which Judges MICHAEL, KING, and GREGORY joined.
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
A North Carolina jury convicted Kenneth Rouse of first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and attempted first-degree rape. Following a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended the death penalty. Rouse was then sentenced to death for first-degree murder, forty…
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