Legal Opinion
Michael Wade Nance v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 30, 2019No. 17-15361PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
*1300 Michael Wade Nance, a convicted murderer under sentence of death in Georgia, appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. There are two claims before us. One involves the use of a stun belt security device at his resentencing trial. The other is a sentence stage ineffective assistance claim involving mitigating circumstances, which is a type of claim common in federal habeas challenges to death sentences. What is uncommon about this claim is that the petitioner does not contend that his trial counsel were deficient in any way in uncovering…
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