Legal Opinion
St. Aubin v. Quarterman
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 21, 2006No. 05-40277PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
Keith Michael St. Aubin contests the denial of habeas relief for his Texas-state-court conviction of, inter alia, murder, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Pursuant to our highly deferential standard of review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996) (AEDPA), at issue is whether the following state-habeas decision is unreasonable: St. Aubin’s lead trial counsel was not ineffective at the trial’s punishment phase, for either his investigation of, or decision not to present,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Bell v. ConeSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Rompilla v. BeardSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by65 opinions
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