Legal Opinion
Adams v. Quarterman
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 22, 2009No. 06-70044UnpublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
Petitioner John Wade Adams, convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death, received federal habeas corpus relief in district court based on ineffective assistance of counsel (“IAC”) for his trial lawyer’s deficient mitigation investigation. Adams now seeks a certificate of appeala-bility (“COA”) on three grounds for which the district court denied habeas relief, viz., (1) his trial counsel’s failure to object to the prosecution’s improper and prejudicial jury argument constituted IAC; (2) the prosecution’s failure to reveal impeachment evidence constituted a denial…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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