Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Branker
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2012No. 11-1, 11-2PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge KEENAN wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge MOTZ joined.
OPINION
BARBARA MILANO KEENAN, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, the State of North Carolina seeks reversal of the district court’s judgment granting a writ of habeas corpus to Timothy Richardson. In granting the writ, the district court vacated the sentence of death imposed after Richardson’s conviction for first-degree murder. The district court concluded that the state courts of North Carolina unreasonably applied the Supreme Court’s holding…
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