Legal Opinion
Suggs v. McNeil
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 2010No. 09-12718PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presents the question whether the attorneys who represented Ernest Suggs, a Florida prisoner sentenced to death, deprived Suggs of effective assistance by failing to investigate and present a defense of mental health mitigation for the penalty phase of his trial. In 1992, a jury found Suggs guilty of robbery, kidnapping, and murder. The state proved that Suggs in 1990 kidnapped Pauline Casey, who was working alone at the Teddy Bear Bar in Walton County, Florida; Suggs drove Casey several miles from the…
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