Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Wainwright
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 19, 1986No. 85-3583PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
The principal question presented on this appeal is whether the district court properly applied the doctrine of Wainwright v. Sykes, 433 U.S. 72, 97 S.Ct. 2497, 53 L.Ed.2d 594 (1977), and Murray v. Carrier, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 2639, 91 L.Ed.2d 397 (1986), in holding that petitioner is barred from obtaining federal habeas corpus relief on his claim that the trial court unconstitutionally excluded non-statutory mitigating evidence from his capital sentencing proceeding. We conclude that the doctrine of Sykes and Carrier does not bar a review of the merits of petitioner’s…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by30 opinions
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