Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald v. Bass
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided March 15, 1988No. Record No. 0511-85PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*41Opinion
ON REHEARING EN BANC
KEENAN, J.
— Edward Fitzgerald appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The issues we address are: (1) whether Fitzgerald was improperly denied an evidentiary hearing on certain claims; (2) whether the testimony of prosecution witness, Wilbur Caviness, deprived Fitzgerald of due process; and, (3) whether Fitzgerald was denied effective assistance of counsel.1 We dismiss that part of Fitzgerald’s appeal which deals with his capital murder conviction because under our jurisdictional statutes, as interpreted in Peterson v. Bass, 2 Va. App.…
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3Cited by93 opinions
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- Gray v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1995
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