Legal Opinion
Derrick Anthony DeBruce v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2014No. 11-11535PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, Circuit Judge:
Derrick Anthony DeBruee, an inmate on Alabama’s death row, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging his death sentence. DeBruee contends that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution in both the guilt and the penalty phases of his capital murder trial.
DeBruee was convicted of fatally shooting a customer during the robbery of an AutoZone store which he committed with five other men.1 DeBruee argues that his retained trial…
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