Legal Opinion
Torray Stitts v. Bill Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 15, 2013No. 12-2255PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Torray Stitts, who was convicted of murder in Indiana state court and sentenced to sixty years’ imprisonment, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Stitts asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), because before deciding not to present an alibi defense, he only interviewed one alibi witness, Stitts’s father, while unreasonably failing to investigate whether there might be any more. Without explicitly…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Cullen v. PinholsterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- Walker Whatley v. Dushan ZateckyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2016
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