Legal Opinion
Parrish Towns, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. David Smith, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 7, 2005No. 03-1988/2030PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
David Smith, Warden, appeals the district court’s conditional grant of Parrish Towns’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Because Parrish Towns’s two brothers also are involved in this case, we generally will refer to Parrish Towns by his first name. The district court held that Parrish’s trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment by failing to investigate a witness who had admitted to the police, among others, that he had been involved in the crimes of which Parrish was ultimately convicted and that Parrish had…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Kimmelman v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Roe v. Flores-OrtegaSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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3Cited by194 opinions
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