Legal Opinion
Hill v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 1996No. 94-6793PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
Walter Hill, an Alabama inmate convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Finding the district court did not err in denying relief on Hill’s claims, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Crime
Walter Hill was convicted and sentenced to death for the January 1977 murders of Willie Mae Hammock, John Tatum and Lois Tatum in the Booker Heights community of Jefferson County, Alabama. In 1976, while residing in Jefferson County, Hill frequently gambled and drank at Willie Mae Hammock’s home in…
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