Legal Opinion
Fotopoulos v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 2008No. 07-11105PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The two issues in this appeal by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections of Florida involve whether the Supreme Court of Florida unreasonably applied clearly established federal law when it upheld the death sentence of Konstanti-nos X. Fotopoulos entered after the State of Florida had presented an allegedly inconsistent theory of Fotopoulos’s relative culpability in a co-conspirator’s sentencing trial. The district court granted a writ of habeas corpus on two grounds: (1) Foto-poulos’s trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to impeach the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Woodford v. VisciottiSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Bradshaw v. StumpfSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by26 opinions
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