Legal Opinion
Floyd Rayner, III v. David Mills
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 12, 2012No. 10-5242PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CARR, District Judge.
Petitioner Floyd Earl Rayner, III, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus. The district court granted a Certifícate of Appealability to review Rayner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims and, finding them meritless, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
I. BACKGROUND
On January 10, 2001, a Tennessee jury convicted Rayner of five counts of rape of a child and five counts of aggravated sexual battery. (Memorandum, Dist Ct. Docket No. 90, at 2.) The trial court sentenced petitioner to an effective term of fifty-one years in…
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