Legal Opinion
Puiatti v. McNeil
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 29, 2010No. 09-15514PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
Carl Puiatti, a Florida inmate under a death sentence, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus that challenged his convictions and death sentence. The district court denied the petition as to Puiatti’s convictions but vacated Puiatti’s death sentence. The district court concluded that the state trial court’s denial of Puiatti’s motion to sever his penalty phase from his co-defendant’s violated Puiatti’s constitutional right to an individualized determination of sentence. The State appealed. After review and oral argument, we reverse and remand this…
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