Syvasky Lafayette Poyner v. Edward W. Murray, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, (Six Cases)

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 1992-05-08

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OPINION WIDENER, Circuit Judge: Syvasky Lafayette Poyner challenges the judgments of three Virginia state courts, each sentencing him to death. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied each of Poyner’s three petitions for writs of habeas corpus. We affirm. Poyner was convicted of five count…

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