Legal Opinion
Charles Edward Hunter v. United States of America, Henry C. Bailey v. John E. Nagle, Warden, Jeff Sessions, Attorney General for the State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 10, 1996No. 96-6513, 96-6770PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
We heard these cases en banc to decide whether a district court judge is authorized to issue a. certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 22(b), as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214. We answer that question in the affirmative. We also decide that the AEDPA amendments to § 2253(e) and Rule 22(b) apply to all 28 U.S.C. § 2254 eases in which no certificate of probable cause to appeal was obtained under preexisting law before the…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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3Cited by122 opinions
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- Patrick James Jeffries v. Tana Wood, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
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