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| Spartanburg death row inmate loses appeal |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/02/2004 |
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A federal appeals court has rejected a South Carolina man's claim that his trial lawyers did not defend him effectively against charges he killed two Spartanburg movie theater employees during a robbery. A three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals denied Richard Longworth's appeal. Longworth and co-defendant David Rocheville were convicted of robbing and shooting Alex Hopps and James Greene in January 1991. Rocheville was executed in 1999. Longworth had asked the court to rule that one of his defense lawyers had a conflict of interest because he also represented Longworth's parents, who did not want alcohol abuse or domestic violence in the family to come up in the trial. The judges also rejected Longworth's arguments that a mistrial should have been declared after a deputy gave misleading testimony. Longworth can ask the Appeals Court to rehear the case or appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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