Legal Opinion
Durrell Bester v. Warden, Attorney General of the State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 2016No. 13-15779PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
Durrell Bester appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, which challenged his Alabama convictions for trafficking in cocaine, failure to affix a tax stamp, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bester contends that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to request that the jury be given a no-adverse-inference jury instruction, which would have told the jurors that they could not infer from his failure to testify that he was guilty.
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