Legal Opinion
Bryan F. Jennings v. James McDonough
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 2007No. 05-16363PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
Bryan F. Jennings, a Florida prisoner sentenced to death for the 1979 murder of Rebecca Kunash, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After denying the writ, the district court granted a certifícate of appealability on Jennings’s claim that his sentence was rendered unconstitutional by the application of two invalid aggravating factors — that the murder was “heinous, atrocious, and cruel” (HAC) and “cold, calculated, and premeditated” (CCP). We expanded the certifícate of appealability to…
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