Legal Opinion
Owens v. Guida
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 9, 2008No. 05-6105PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBoggs, C.J., joined by Siler, J.,
MERRITT, J. (pp. 424-31), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
BOGGS, Chief Judge.
Gaile K. Owens (“Owens”) is on Tennessee’s death row because she hired Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband and Porterfield successfully carried out his assignment. Owens appeals the district court’s dismissal of her petition for a writ of habeas corpus. She argues that: 1) she received ineffective assistance of counsel (“IAC”) when trial counsel failed to adequately investigate her background and failed to overcome the state’s hearsay objection to one of her penalty-phase witnesses; 2) the state…
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