opinion: BELL v. KELLY, WARDEN
  No. 07-1223.
  Argued November 12, 2008
  Decided November 17, 2008
  Richard R Bress argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Maureen E. Mahoney, J. Scott Ballenger, Matthew K. Roskoski, Robert Lee, Jonathan P. Sheldon, and Randi R. Vickers.
  Katherine B. Burnett, Senior Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General, and Jerry P. Slonaker, Senior Assistant Attorney General.
  Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Former State Court Judges by Susan J. Kohlmann; for the National Association of Federal Defenders et al. by Andrea D. Lyon, Pamela Harris, and Frances H. Pratt; and for the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers by Ashley C. Parrish and Marvin D. Miller.
  Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Idaho et al. by Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General of Idaho, and Jessica M. Lorello, L. LaMont Anderson, and Kenneth K. Jorgensen, Deputy Attorneys General, by Kevin T. Kane, Chief State’s Attorney of Connecticut, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Troy King of Alabama, Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas, John Suthers of Colorado, Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Bill McCollum of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker of Georgia, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaii, Steve Carter of Indiana, Steve Six of Kansas, Jack Conway of Kentucky, Martha Coakley of Massachusetts, Lori Swanson of Minnesota, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Jon Bruning of Nebraska, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, Anne Milgram of New Jersey, Gary K. King of New Mexico, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Lawrence E. Long of South Dakota, Greg Abbott of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, Robert M. McKenna of Washington, and Bruce A Salzburg of Wyoming; for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger; and for the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys by Joel R. Bmnscom.
  Per Curiam.
  The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
  It is so ordered.
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