Legal Opinion
Keith Tharpe v. Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 2016No. 14-12464PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
This is the latest iteration in a series of challenges brought by Keith Leroy Tharpe to the sentence of death he received in 1991 for kidnapping his wife and kidnapping and murdering Jaquelin Freeman, his sister-in-law. After decades of litigation and having exhausted his opportunities for relief on direct and collateral review in the Georgia courts, Tharpe now appeals the District Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Our review is limited to the following two issues: First, whether Tharpe’s trial counsel provided…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
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- Cullen v. PinholsterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
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3Cited by140 opinions
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