Legal Opinion
Joseph Thomas v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 1983No. 81-7675PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
In January 1977 appellant Joseph Thomas and his codefendant Ivon Ray Stanley were sentenced to death in separate proceedings for the armed robbery, kidnapping and murder of Clifford Floyd. The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the convictions and sentences for murder and kidnapping and vacated the conviction and sentence for armed robbery. Thomas v. State, 240 Ga. 393, 242 S.E.2d 1 (1977), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 914, 98 S.Ct. 2255, 56 L.Ed.2d 415 (1978).
Thomas then filed a state habeas corpus petition alleging that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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