Legal Opinion
Stephen Todd Booker v. Richard L. Dugger
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 25, 1987No. 86-3411PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
On October 20, 1978, Stephen Todd Booker was sentenced to death by a Florida court for the murder and rape of a 94 year old woman. Booker appeals from the district court’s denial of his third petition for federal habeas corpus and dismissal of his independent action brought pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). We affirm.
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This appeal grows out of Booker’s claim, first raised in his second habeas petition, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. Booker was represented at trial by Stephen N. Bernstein, who was then an assistant public…
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