Legal Opinion
Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 2016No. 14-15650PublishedCited by 280 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner J.W. Ledford, Jr., a Georgia death-row inmate, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus, raising multiple challenges to his- capital conviction and death sentence. The district court conducted an evidentiary hearing on Led-ford’s claim that he is intellectually disabled and- not subject to execution. 1 Ultimately, the district court found Ledford was not intellectually disabled. Subsequently, the district court denied Ledford’s petition as to his multiple ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims, but granted a certificate of appealability…
2Cases cited64 opinions
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- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Cullen v. PinholsterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
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3Cited by280 opinions
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