Flamer v. State of DE

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge:

William Henry Flamer, whose first-degree murder conviction and death sentence were affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court, took this appeal from an order of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus. When Flamer’s appeal was initially presented to this panel, he argued: (1) that his confession was obtained in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and therefore should have been suppressed; (2) that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective; (3) that the penalty-phase jury instructions violated the Eighth…