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Opinion
Filed
Jan. 25, 2019
Case
Charles Finch v. Timothy McKoy
Case status
Decided

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GREGORY, Chief Judge: Petitioner Charles Ray Finch appeals the denial of his federal habeas petition. In 1976, a jury in Wilson, North Carolina convicted Finch of first-degree murder. Finch originally received a death sentence, but in 1977, the North Carolina Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. In 2015, Finch filed a habeas petition in the United States District Co…

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