Legal Opinion
Derick Lynn Peterson v. Edward W. Murray, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1990No. 89-4012PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:
Through this habeas corpus proceeding, Derick Lynn Peterson collaterally attacks a Virginia state court judgment convicting him of capital murder and sentencing him to death. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia dismissed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
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Peterson was convicted of fatally shooting Howard Kauffman during the robbery of a Hampton, Virginia, grocery store on February 7, 1982. The details of the crime are recounted in the opinion affirming his conviction on direct appeal. Peterson v. Commonwealth, 225 Va.…
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