Legal Opinion
Floyd Price v. Louie L. Wainwright and Jim Smith
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 13, 1985No. 83-3447PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Asserting that he was not competent to stand trial at the time he pled guilty to first degree murder in Florida, Floyd Donald Price appeals the denial of habeas corpus relief from his life sentence. Although there may be some question as to whether the district court properly applied the 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254(d) presumption of correctness to the state court’s finding of competency, an independent review of the record, giving proper deference to the state court’s credibility choices and findings of historical facts and the district court’s findings at an evidentiary hearing,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Maggio v. FulfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Robert Vernon Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by18 opinions
- United States v. Charles Joseph Hogan, A/K/A Hal Winter Michael TrupeiCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993
- Nollie Lee Martin v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Davidson J. James v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
- Theodore Robert Bundy v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Juan Fallada v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
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