Cases

SMITH, Chief Judge. Keith D. Nelson pleaded guilty to interstate kidnapping resulting in the death of ten-year-old Pamela Butler. At the penalty phase of the trial, the jury sentenced him to death after consideration of aggravating and mitigating factors. After this court affirmed his death sentence, see United States v. Nelson (Nelson I) ,

USCA4 Appeal: 21-4250 Doc: 41 Filed: 06/17/2022 Pg: 1 of 14 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 21-4250 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. KEITH EUGENE NELSON, Defendant

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.

ORDER Keith Nelson’s petition for panel rehearing filed December 15, 2016, has been considered by the panel and is granted. The petition for rehearing en banc is dismissed as moot. Nelson’s petition argues that the panel’s order of September 15, 2016, applied an incorrect legal standard in evaluating his application for a certificate of appealability, We reject this contention. The order’s language, which 'is stand

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ________________ No. 02-1757 ________________ United States of America, * * Appellee, * * Appeal from the United States v. *

HANSEN, Circuit Judge. After pleading guilty to the kidnap, rape, and murder of ten-year-old Pamela Butler, Keith Dwayne Nelson was sentenced to death. He raises numerous arguments on appeal, and, for the reasons stated below, we reject them and affirm the judgment of the district court.2 I. On September 29, 1999, Nelson approached James Robinson in the park

ORDER FERNANDO J. GAITAN, JR., District Judge. I. BACKGROUND On October 14, 1999, Keith Nelson was charged with interstate kidnapping resulting in death and interstate travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a child under the age of twelve. On October 25, 2001, Nelson entered a plea of guilty to count one and proceeded to the penalty phase of the trial. On November 13, 20

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied. Same case below, 400 Fed. Appx. 781.

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Keith E. Anderson appeals his convictions and sentence for conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, aiding and assisting the filing of materially false income tax returns, mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and international money laundering. Anderso

MELLOY, Circuit Judge. Defendants David Earl Harvey and Gerald Keith Miller appeal their sentences, alleging that the district court 1 improperly: (1) applied a sophisticated means enhancement, (2) held each defendant responsible for the criminal acts of the other, and (3) violated their rights under Blakely v

Motion to direct the Clerk to file a petition for a writ of certiorari out of time under Rule 14.5 denied.

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge: Appellants robbed two J. Jessop’s Jewelry stores in San Diego on July 11 and August 12,. 1992. The robberies were carefully planned operations. Members of the robbery crew posed as customers inside each store. Once these crew members were in position, another member of the crew entered and brandished a pistol. The rest of the crew then sprung into action, cleaning-out each store in a ma

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0251p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ┐ Plaintiff-Appellee, │ │

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER LEVIN, United States Magistrate Judge. Following a bench trial, petitioner Glenn Verser (“Verser”) was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery and attempted armed robbery on January 22, 1987. He pursued state appellate and post-*282conviction remedies without success, and now petitions th

BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge. Defendant-appellant, Ricky C. Nelson, appeals his conviction for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), raising numerous assignments of error by the trial court. Finding plain error in the *200 jury in

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER BUCKLO, District Judge. Petitioner, Louis French, was convicted of armed robbery in 1965. He was released from prison in 1973. Subsequently, Mr. French was convicted again of armed robbery in 1978 and presently is serving a fifty to one hundred year sentence for that crime. Mr. French has pursued various avenues of relief on various claims for both crimes in the st

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER MORAN, Senior District Judge. This is the second petition of Michael K. Harris for habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. Harris now alleges the ineffective assistance of counsel and the deni*859al of a right to an evidentiary hearing (during his state post-conviction proceeding) to determine i

Opinion for the Court filed PER CURIAM. PER CURIAM: In November 2000, a grand jury returned a 158-count superseding indictment against sixteen defendants. The indictment alleged that, during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, those defendants conspired to run a large-scale and violent nareotics-distribution business centered in Washington, D.C. The de

CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge. Defendant-appellant Michael Nelson appeals his multiple-count cocaine-trafficking conviction and sentence. For the following reasons, we affirm Nelson’s conviction and sentence. I. On September 20, 1988, defendant-appellant Michael Nelson (“Nelson”) was named in seven counts of an eleven-count su-per

Wesley, Circuit Judge: *581 John M. Larson was involved with-and later convicted of crimes related to-the organization of several fraudulent tax shelters. See United States v. Pfaff ,