Legal Opinion
Collins v. Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 31, 2014No. 12-3472PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
Rodney Collins, a Pennsylvania prisoner convicted in 1993 of first-degree murder, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Although the District Court denied his petition, it certified two questions for appeal: whether Collins was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel “inadequately prepared for trial and completely failed to conduct any investigation, including into the ballistics…
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3Cited by129 opinions
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