Legal Opinion
Marquard v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 10, 2005No. 05-10904PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
John C. Marquard appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging his death sentence. On appeal, Marquard argues primarily that his trial counsel was ineffective in various ways during the penalty phase of his trial. After review and oral argument, we affirm Marquard’s death sentence.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Murder of Stacey Willets
Marquard was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of his girlfriend, Stacey Wil-lets. After Willets’s remains were discovered by hunters in the woods, Marquard and codefendant Michael…
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