Legal Opinion
Son H. Fleming v. Ralph Kemp
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 29, 1984No. 83-8321PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner, Son H. Fleming, is a Georgia inmate who has been convicted of the murder of James Edward Giddens, the police chief of Ray City, a small town in south Georgia, and sentenced to death.1 He applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that his conviction and/or sentence were invalid on thirty-nine federal constitutional grounds. All the claims had previously been considered on their merits and rejected by the Georgia courts.2 The district court refused to issue the writ. Petitioner appeals, raising eight of the claims he brought to…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Eurus Kelly Waters v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Carzell Moore v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Clifford Henry Bowen v. Gary D. Maynard, Warden, Oklahoma State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1986
- Morrison v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1989
- Son H. Fleming v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
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