# James Lee Spencer v. Walter D. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · December 13, 1983 · 715 F.2d 1562

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9471092

## Case

- **Full name:** James Lee SPENCER, Petitioner, v. Walter D. ZANT, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** December 13, 1983
- **Citations:** 715 F.2d 1562; 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 14561
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing
- **Judges:** Kravitch, Johnson, Lynne, Godbold, Ron-Ey, Tjoflat, Hill, Fay, Vance, Henderson, Hatchett, Anderson, Clark
- **Cited by:** 53 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that as late as May 1982 these studies were available only through oral testimony
- discussing when a state law ground is independent and adequate under Wainwright

## Opinion text

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, RON-EY, TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, VANCE, KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HENDERSON, HATCHETT, ANDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
A majority of the Judges in active service, on the Court’s own motion, having determined to have this case reheard en banc,
IT IS ORDERED that the case shall be reheard by this Court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of en banc briefs.

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