Legal Opinion
Wood v. Allen
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided November 20, 2006No. Civil Action 2:04CV509-WHAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ALBRITTON, Senior District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Petitioner, Holly Wood, an Alabama inmate under sentence of death, filed a petition in this court for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Initially, the court entered an order directing that this case should proceed in two stages, the first of which would be to determine which claims should be dismissed on procedural default grounds and which non-defaulted claims require an evidentiary hearing, and the second of which would be to determine the merits of the non-defaulted claims. As a part of this process…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Wood v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
- Wood v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Wood v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008