Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 2008No. 07-11658PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACK, Circuit Judge:
In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Petitioner-Appellant John Freeman contends the State of Florida, through its State’s Attorneys, impermissibly chose to pursue a capital sentence not because of the severity of his crimes, but because he is white and the victims of his crime were black. Freeman argues that by doing so the State violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and that by failing to object to the State’s actions during trial and sentencing, his defense counsel violated his rights under the Sixth…
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