Randolph K. Reeves, Appellee/appellant v. Frank X. Hopkins, Warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Appellant/appellee

BEAM, Circuit Judge...

Randolph Reeves was convicted of two counts of felony murder and sentenced to death. Following unsuccessful appeal and postconvietion actions in Nebraska state court, Reeves was granted habeas corpus relief in federal district court. We reversed, but retained jurisdiction and remanded to the district court for findings on Reeves’s remaining claims. The district court again granted the petition and vacated Reeves’s death sentence. For the second time, the State appeals the district court’s grant of the writ.

We conclude that the district court erred in its grounds for…