Legal Opinion
Robert Earl Butts v. GDCP Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 2017No. 15-15691PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
Robert Earl Butts, Jr., a Georgia prisoner, murdered Donovan Corey Parks. Butts was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of malice murder, armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a sawed-off shotgun. The district court denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he raised a number of claims challenging his convictions and sentence. The court granted him a certificate of appealability on the question whether “[tjrial and appellate counsel were…
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