Spivey v. Turpin

ANDERSON, Chief Judge:

Ronald Keith Spivey, convicted of murder, kidnaping, armed robbery, and aggra*1268vated assault in the state courts of Georgia and sentenced to death, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Ronald Spivey began the evening of December 27, 1976, by entering a bar in Macon, Georgia. Inside he got into an argument with Charles McCook over a twenty-dollar pool game bet. Spivey ended the dispute by firing his gun which wounded a bystander…