Legal Opinion
Christopher Taft Landers v. Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 2015No. 13-11898PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Christopher Taft Landers, an Alabama inmate, appeals from a district court order denying his habeas petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. Landers challenges the adequacy of the state court’s fact-finding procedure on collateral review: he claims that the Alabama court’s finding that he did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel — a finding the court made on the basis of dueling affidavits, without an evidentiary hearing, pursuant to Rule 32 of the Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure — was “an unreasonable determination of the facts” under 28…
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