Legal Opinion
Marcus Rivers v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 2015No. 12-15208PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBRENO, District Judge:
This appeal arises out of a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. After his 2007 conviction for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, Marcus Rivers filed a motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, alleging that his trial attorney — who died before Rivers filed his § 2255 petition — was constitutionally ineffective in several ways. At an evidentiary hearing on Rivers’s claims, counsel for Rivers’s codefendant testified, in relevant part, about conversations he had with Rivers’s lawyer before the trial. Over Rivers’s objection, the district…
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