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Nature of Suit Code: 535
Nature of Suit: Habeas Corpus - Death Penalty
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

PINE BLUFF DIVISION

THIS IS A CAPITAL CASE

MARCEL WAYNE WILLIAMS PETITIONER

v. No. 5:02CV00450 JLH

LARRY NORRIS, Director, 

Arkansas Department of Correction RESPONDENT

ORDER

The application for certificate of appealability (Document #107) by Marcel Wayne Williams

is GRANTED as to the following issues:

A. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that the prosecutor’s intentional use of peremptory strikes in a racially

discriminatory manner violated his constitutional rights.

B. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that his right to a fair trial was violated by the presence on his jury of

individuals who could not sit as fair and impartial jurors.

C. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that the admission into evidence of the statement illegally obtained from

him by law enforcement violated Mr. Williams’s constitutional rights.

D. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that the sentencing provisions of Arkansas’s capital murder statutes

violate the Constitution.

E. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that allowing the jury to consider as an aggravating circumstance the

felony conviction that he received at age 15 violated the Eighth and Fourteenth

Amendments.

F. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that his death sentence was improperly supported by the jury’s finding

that the killing took place for purposes of pecuniary gain.

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G. Whether this Court was correct in its ruling that Mr. Williams is not entitled to relief

on his claim that insufficient evidence was presented to support the finding of the

aggravating circumstance that the murder was especially cruel or depraved.

IT IS SO ORDERED this 10th day of May, 2007.

J. LEON HOLMES

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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