Steve Sizemore, Cross-Appellant v. Lloyd Fletcher, Warden, Cross-Appellee

ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Respondent-appellant Lloyd Fletcher, Warden, appeals a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, granting a writ of habe-as corpus to Petitioner-appellee Steve Size-more on the ground that prosecutorial misconduct denied Sizemore his right to due process of law, as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment. Sizemore was convicted of two counts of first degree murder (Ky.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 507.020), and received two concurrent twenty-year sentences. After considering the nature of the alleged constitutional violations raised by the…