Legal Opinion
Bolender v. Dugger
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided February 15, 1991No. 90-2262-CIVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
MORENO, District Judge.
Bernard Bolender petitions the court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, asserting that his convictions and sentences of death were obtained in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. Specifically, Bolender alleges, inter alia, that he was denied the right to have non-statutory mitigating evidence fully investigated, developed, presented and considered due to the instructions and standards then in effect, and to the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Maynard v. CartwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Spaziano v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Hitchcock v. DuggerSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Bernard Bolender, A/K/A Bernard Bolander v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Bolender v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1995
- Bolender v. SingletaryDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1995
- Wilson v. SingletaryDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1992