Legal Opinion
John Booth-El v. Eugene M. Nuth, Warden J. Joseph Curran, Jr., John Booth-El v. Eugene M. Nuth, Warden J. Joseph Curran, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 25, 2002No. 01-8, 01-10PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions to dismiss the petition by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge GREGORY joined.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Chief Judge.
After his third death sentence for the murder of Irvin and Rose Bronstein was affirmed by the Maryland courts, John Booth-El filed a federal habeas corpus petition. The district court granted in part his petition on the ground that the removal of intoxication as a statutory mitigating factor at his 1990 re-sentencing violated the Ex Post Facto Clause. But the court…
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