Legal Opinion
Jeffrey D. Hill v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 8, 2005No. 03-4132PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
A state-court jury imposed a capital sentence on Jeffrey Hill for the aggravated murder of his mother, and Hill now challenges a district court decision denying his petition for habeas corpus relief. Among a host of other claims, Hill emphasizes that his lawyers’ failure to hire a mitigation psychologist .until the day before the mitigation hearing constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Even assuming that the delay in hiring this psychologist amounted to objectively defective lawyer-ing, we agree with the district court that Hill has not shown that the delay…
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