Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 2016No. 14-10681PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether, when a federal court reviews a state prisoner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, it must “look through” a summary decision on the merits by a state appellate court to review the last reasoned decision. Marion Wilson, Jr., a Georgia prisoner sentenced to death for the murder of Donovan Parks in 1996, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia. That court denied his petition in a written opinion. Wilson sought to appeal that decision, and the Supreme Court of Georgia…
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3Cited by27 opinions
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