Legal Opinion
Sherman Elwood Skipper v. James B. French, Warden of Central Prison
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 25, 1997No. 97-2PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Senior Judge PHILLIPS wrote the opinion in which Judge WIDENER and Judge MICHAEL joined.
PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by Sherman Elwood Skipper from a district court order which dismissed, as procedurally barred, all the federal claims presented in his federal habe-as corpus petition seeking relief from his North Carolina state court conviction and death sentence for first-degree murder. Because we conclude, on de novo review, that Skipper’s federal claims were not procedurally barred, we vacate and remand for consideration of the…
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