Legal Opinion
Hodge v. Haeberlin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2009No. 06-6027PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The district court properly denied habeas corpus in this case because petitioner Benny Lee Hodge has not shown that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. A jury convicted Hodge and sentenced him to death for his role in a 1985 double murder. Hodge advances numerous claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, including a claim that counsel prevented Hodge from testifying on his own behalf and that counsel ineffectively cross-*634examined the prosecution’s key witness. Because the record does not show that any alleged mistake by Hodge’s counsel meets the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Michel v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by80 opinions
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