Ritter v. Thigpen

ORDER

HAND, Chief Judge.

This death penalty case is before the Court on Wayne E. Ritter’s second petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1977 in an Alabama state court. The procedural history of this case has, in part, been exhaustively presented by numerous courts during the appellate review process encompassing a number of years and it will not be further duplicated. See, e.g., Ritter v. State, 429 So.2d 928, 931-32 (Ala.1983); Ritter v. Smith, 568 F.Supp. 1499 (S.D.Ala.1983); Ritter v.…