Van Roosevelt Solomon v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center

FAY, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Van Roosevelt Solomon, appeals from the denial by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted in 1979 of murder in Georgia state court and was sentenced to death. Solomon raises six issues before this court: (1) whether the prosecutor impermissibly commented on petitioner’s post-arrest silence and failure to testify in violation of petitioner’s constitutional rights as enunciated in Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610, 96 S.Ct. 2240, 49 L.Ed.2d 91 (1976) and Griffin v.…