Legal Opinion
Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 1990No. 88-8619PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
Petitioner, Jimmie Burden, Jr., is a Georgia prisoner convicted on four counts of murder and sentenced to death on three of those counts. After exhausting his remedies in the Georgia state courts, Burden filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, alleging inter alia that his trial counsel had a conflict of interest. The district court denied the petition, see Burden v. Zant, 690 F.Supp. 1040 (M.D.Ga.1988), and Burden appealed. Because the record did not permit this court to evaluate Burden’s…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Devier v. ZantCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993
- Burden v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Taylor v. WardenUtah Supreme Court · 1995
- Jimmie Burden, Jr. v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Harlow v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2005
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