Legal Opinion
Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. Secretary Pennsylvania Departm
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 12, 2018No. 14-9001PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.
*257 A jury found petitioner Seifullah Abdul-Salaam, Jr. ("Abdul-Salaam") guilty of first-degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy after a six-day trial in March 1995 in the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. After a one-day penalty phase hearing in which Abdul-Salaam's counsel presented three mitigation witnesses, the jury sentenced Abdul-Salaam to death. Abdul-Salaam, after exhausting his state remedies, filed the instant petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , challenging his sentence based on trial counsel's provision…
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