Legal Opinion
John Wayne Holsomback v. J.D. White, Warden, Attorney General of the State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 1998No. 96-6211PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
• John Wayne Holsomback, an Alabama prisoner, appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his pro se habeas petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Holsomback was convicted of first-degree sodomy by an Alabama state court and received a 25-year sentence. The prosecution’s case consisted entirely of the testimony of Holsomback’s ten-year-old son, Jeffrey. Jeffrey testified that from the time of his parents’ divorce in 1982, when he was four years old, until November 1987, his father had regularly subjected him to anal intercourse during their biweekly weekend…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Jimmy Lee Horton v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
- Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson v. Tommy Herring, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Tolbert Dickson v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
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3Cited by65 opinions
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- Kristopher C. Edwards v. A. Lamarque, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Kenneth G. Pavel v. Melvin L. Hollins, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of New York StateCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
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