Legal Opinion
Jermont Cox v. Martin Horn
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 7, 2014No. 13-2982PublishedCited by 262 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BARRY, Circuit Judge.
More than twenty years ago, Jermont Cox was convicted in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County of first-degree murder and related charges. In 2000, he filed a petition in the U.S. District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court dismissed the petition in 2004, finding that all but one of Cox’s claims were procedurally defaulted due to counsel’s failure to pursue them in Cox’s initial-review post-conviction proceeding in state court and that the one preserved claim lacked merit. We affirmed. In 2012, the Supreme Court of the…
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