Jerome Bowden v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This case is before us on remand from the Supreme Court with instructions to reconsider our panel decision, Bowden v. Francis, 733 F.2d 740 (11th Cir.1984), in light of the Court's recent holdings in Ake v. Oklahoma, — U.S.-, 105 S.Ct. 1087, 84 L.Ed.2d 53 (1985). We have reconsidered our decision and find it to be entirely consistent with Ake. Accordingly, our affirmance of the district court’s denial of habeas corpus relief remains undisturbed.

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Jerome Bowden is a Georgia death row inmate. Bowden stands convicted of the crimes of murder (for which he received the death…