Legal Opinion
Porter v. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 18, 2008No. 07-12976PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Per curiam
The Attorney General of Florida and the Secretary of the Department of Corrections of Florida (“State”) appeal the district court’s grant of George Porter, Jr.’s petition for federal habeas corpus relief. Porter was sentenced to death for the 1986 murder of Evelyn Williams, his former live-in lover. After exhausting his state post-conviction remedies, Porter filed, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Middle District of Florida. The district court granted habeas relief as to Porter’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at his November 30, 1987…
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