Wilson v. Warden, Ga. Diagnostic Prison

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States for us to reconsider the denial of Marion Wilson Jr.'s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Wilson, a Georgia prisoner sentenced to death for the murder of Donovan Corey Parks, argues that he was deprived of a fair trial because his counsel provided ineffective assistance during the penalty phase of his trial. In state postconviction proceedings, Wilson argued that his trial counsel were constitutionally ineffective because they failed to discover and introduce mitigating evidence. The state…