Legal Opinion
Ralph Kemp, Warden, Chatham County Correctional Institution, Respondent v. Johnny B. Leggett
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 27, 1981No. 80-7471PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Per curiam
The state appeals the grant of § 2254 relief. We agree with the conclusion of the district judge that the appellee was deprived of his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and affirm.
Appellee, Johnny B. Leggett, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. At the evidentiary hearing on the federal habeas action 1 appellee’s retained counsel testified that his previous criminal trial experience had been to assist in the trial of one minor case and that Leggett’s murder trial was his first unassisted criminal case. He admitted that he had not interviewed the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Otis Ray Fitzgerald v. W. J. Estelle, Director Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Stanley Jules JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Robert Charles Jones v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by42 opinions
- State v. ThomasWashington Supreme Court · 1987
- John Lewis Washington v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Jimmy Lee Gray v. Eddie Lucas, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Washington v. StricklandCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Ivon Ray Stanley v. Walter D. Zant, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, DefendantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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