Legal Opinion
Richard Hamilton v. Secretary, Florida department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2015No. 14-13535PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
Richard Hamilton, a prisoner on Florida’s death row, has filed a motion for a certificate of appealability (COA). See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). He argues that jurists of reason could debate whether the district court properly denied the motions he filed under Rules 60(b) and 59(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Those motions contended that, based on intervening decisions by the Supreme Court and this Court, Hamilton should be able to revive the ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim that he proeedurally defaulted in his state post-conviction proceedings.
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In 2008, the district court…
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