idence. In urging the Supreme Court to reject the appeal, the North Carolina attorney general's office said that while Mr. McCarver demonstrated "borderline" intellectual functioning, he was not retarded and that the question was not properly part of his appeal. Before accepting the case today, the Supreme Court had turned down two earlier appeals from Mr. McCarver, one in 1996, after the North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence, and another last Jan. 8. In the latter appeal, Mr. McCarver had sought review of a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. After that, North Carolina scheduled Mr. Carver's execution for March 2. He won a stay of execution from a state trial judge, which was vacated on the same day by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The appeal that the justices allowed today is from the North Carolina Supreme Court's refusal on Feb. 27 to consider Mr. McCarver's constitutional challenge to his execution.February 21, 2001 National F.B.I. Agent Charged as Spy Who Aided Russia for 15 Years By DAVID JOHNSTON •In Russia, a Rave Begins With a Mystical Voyage (Jul 16, 2000) •Putin Wins Russia Vote in First Round, But His Majority Is Less Than Expected (Mar 27, 2000) •Russia Power-Sharing Deal Settled, Then Seems to Fail (Aug 31, 1998) Find more related articles by selecting from the following topics: Suits and Litigation United States Armament and Defense United States Politics and Government Crime and Criminals ASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — A senior F.B.I. agent who worked as a counterintelligence supervisor at the agency's headquarters was charged today as a spy who passed highly classified information to Russia for 15 years without being detected. Law enforcement officials described the case as an extremely grave breach of national security. The agent, Robert Philip Hanssen, 56, was accused of turnin...
