Opinion ID: 1148183
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Petitioner was deprived of his right to effective assistance of counsel at his 1982 guilt phase trial (Wiley I).

Text: C. The prosecutor's exclusion of all potential black jurors from petitioner's guilt trial ( Wiley I ) and the exclusion of all but one potential black juror from petitioner's sentencing hearing creates a prima facie violation of Batson v. Kentucky and Griffith v. Kentucky . D. The prosecutor's exclusion of all potential black jurors from petitioner's guilt trial ( Wiley I ) and the exclusion of all but one potential black juror from petitioner's sentencing hearing ( Wiley II ) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. E. Petitioner's sentence of death is tainted by racial bias and discrimination in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. F. The trial court erred by admitting incompetent, prejudicial, cumulative, and irrelevant evidence. G. Prosecutorial misconduct deprived petitioner of a fundamentally fair trial at the sentencing stage and resulted in a sentence of death that was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice and other arbitrary factors. H. The Mississippi Supreme Court's appellate and proportionality review of the sentence of this case violated petitioner's rights.