re word After being convicted in the Superior Court of Fulton County,Georgia to capital punishment, McCleskey filed a writ of habeas appeal to theFederal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, which consisted of anextensive evidentiary hearing and thorough consideration of the Baldus study,resulting in the denial of the appeal.McCleskey therefore appealed to the EleventhCircuit court of Appeals and affirmed the decision made by the lower appellatecourts.McCleskey was then granted certiorari in the US Supreme Court