Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Commissioner, Alabama Dept. of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 5, 2012No. 09-15310PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
Gregory Hunt is a death-row inmate in the Alabama prison system as a result of his conviction for capital murder on June 19, ■ 1990. Hunt seeks a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. To obtain the writ, Hunt must establish that the decision of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals rejecting his claims “was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the…
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