Legal Opinion
Cortez Miller v. Dennis M. Straub, Warden, Kermit Eldridge Haynes v. Luella Burke, Warden, Saginaw Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 2, 2002No. 00-2150, 00-2163PublishedCited by 260 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBright, J.
GILMAN, J. (pp. 583-585), delivered a separate concurring opinion. BOGGS, J. (pp. 585-588), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
The wardens of two Michigan state correctional institutions appeal a federal district courts conditional grant of habeas corpus to prisoners Cortez Miller and Hermit Haynes on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. Haynes and Miller are currently serving life sentences without parole after pleading guilty to first degree murder.
In 1990, Miller and Haynes were fifteen and sixteen years old, respectively. Each, on the advice…
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