Legal Opinion
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 27, 2018No. 17-10311PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
Scotty Garnell Morrow, a Georgia prisoner convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of Barbara Young and Tonya Woods, appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Morrow contends that we should vacate his sentence on the grounds that his trial attorneys provided ineffective assistance when they failed to uncover and introduce mitigating evidence from Morrow's childhood and when they failed to hire an independent crime-scene expert to corroborate Morrow's account of the murders. We disagree. The Supreme Court of Georgia…
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