Legal Opinion
Morris v. Beard
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 26, 2011No. 08-9001PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.
Kelvin X. Morris was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to death in 1983 following a jury trial in Pennsylvania state court. Morris made several unsuccessful attempts to overturn his convictions and sentence in state court before petitioning the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for a writ of habeas corpus in 2001. After conducting an evidentiary hearing, the District Court found that while defending Morris at his original trial, his counsel had simultaneously represented Morris’s brother,…
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