Legal Opinion
John Young v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 1984No. 83-8557PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Georgia, John Young appeals the denial of habeas corpus relief on the following grounds: (1) he was indicted by an unconstitutionally composed grand jury; (2) he received ineffective assistance of counsel and was wrongfully denied an evidentiary hearing on the ineffective assistance issue; and (3) mitigation evidence was improperly excluded from the sentencing portion of his trial. We affirm.
The evidence upon which petitioner was convicted and sentenced showed that he brutally beat three elderly persons to death in the course…
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