On Petition for Rehearing En Banc
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville.
No. 3:13-cv-00141—Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., Chief District Judge.
Argued En Banc: March 8, 2023
Decided and Filed: June 5, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; MOORE, CLAY, GIBBONS, GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE,
STRANCH, THAPAR, BUSH, LARSEN, NALBANDIAN, READLER, MURPHY, DAVIS,
and MATHIS, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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THAPAR, Circuit Judge. In 1996, nine-year-old Jacqueline Beard left her mother’s
watchful gaze to pick blackberries. William Glenn Rogers made sure she never returned. After
stalking Jackie for days, he kidnapped, raped, and murdered her. Then he disposed of her body
in the woods, where hunters found her remains four months later.
At trial, a jury found Rogers guilty and sentenced him to death. Since then, Rogers has
spent more than two decades challenging his conviction and sentence. In a thoughtful and
exhaustive opinion, Chief Judge Waverly Crenshaw denied Rogers’s federal habeas petition. We
affirm. |