Legal Opinion
Dennis Sochor v. Secretary Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 2012No. 10-14944PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The main issue in this appeal concerns whether the Supreme Court of Florida unreasonably applied clearly established federal law when it explicitly refused to consider relevant mental health evidence in its collateral review of a sentence of death. Dennis Sochor, a serial rapist sentenced to death after he confessed to the murder and kidnapping of an eighteen-year-old woman, argues that the ruling of the Supreme Court of Florida that the failure of his trial counsel to present mitigating mental health evidence during the penalty phase of his trial did not prejudice him…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by21 opinions
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