Hill v. Turpin

BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

Georgia Warden Tony Turpin (“the state”) appeals from the district court’s order granting in part Floyd Ernest Hill’s petition for federal habeas corpus relief as to his death sentence. Hill cross-appeals from the district court’s denial of all of his claims challenging the validity of his conviction, as well as from the denial of the balance of his claims pertaining to his death sentence. Because we find that the prosecution’s repeated and deliberate references throughout Hill’s trial to his post-Miranda silence and request for counsel violated the Due Process Clause…