Legal Opinion
Johnnie L. Johnson, Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 1985No. 84-8419PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Chief Judge:
Petitioner is a Georgia state prisoner convicted in 1975 and sentenced to death for murder, life imprisonment for rape, 20 years for kidnapping, and ten years for aggravated assault. 1 The district court, 585 F.Supp. 1496, after an evidentiary hearing, granted the writ of habeas corpus on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing and denied relief on all other grounds. We affirm the denial of relief on the other grounds, vacate the judgment on the issue of ineffective counsel at sentencing, and remand for reconsideration of that issue under new…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Enmund v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Marsden v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Ingram v. AultCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- Norman Darnell Baxter v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
- David Peek v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
- Robert Franklin Godfrey, Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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