Legal Opinion
Borden v. Allen
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 2011No. 09-14322PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
Jeffery Lynn Borden is a death row inmate in the Alabama prison system; he was convicted of capital murder in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, in September 1995. He seeks a writ of habeas corpus vacating his death sentence on the ground that his attorneys rendered ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his murder trial in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.1 To obtain the writ, Borden must establish that the decision of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denying his ineffective…
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