Donald Middlebrooks v. Wayne Carpenter

OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant Donald Middle-brooks appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition, for a writ of habeas corpus. Middlebrooks was convicted in Tennessee state court for the 1987 kidnapping and murder of Kerrick Majors, a foürteen-year-old African American. A jury sentenced Middlebrooks to death. This is Middlebrooks’s second appeal from the denial of his habeas claims. In 2010, we affirmed the district court’s first dismissal of Middlebroóks’s petition; the Supreme Court vacated our decision, however, in light of the Court’s holding in…