Daniel Ross v. Amos Reed, Etc. And Attorney General of the State of North Carolina

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

Because he had not presented his federal claims to the Supreme Court of North Carolina in the course of his direct appeal from his conviction of first degree murder, we summarily affirmed a denial of habeas corpus relief to this North Carolina prisoner under the principle of Cole v. Stevenson, 620 F.2d 1055 (4th Cir.) en banc, cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1004, 101 S.Ct. 545, 66 L.Ed.2d 301 (1980). Thereafter, the Supreme Court vacated our judgment, 660 F.2d 492 (4th Cir.1981), and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of the intervening cases of Engle v.…