Legal Opinion
Christopher Eugene Brooks v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 2013No. 10-12073PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Christopher Brooks was convicted of murdering a female acquaintance in the course of a rape, robbery, and burglary and was sentenced to death in Alabama state court. The issue presented by this appeal is whether Brooks’s direct appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by inadequately litigating his trial counsel’s ineffective assistance at the penalty phase of his trial. Trial counsel presented only one witness — Brooks’s mother — in mitigation. Brooks says that trial counsel should have sought out and presented more mitigation evidence: in…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Payne v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Christopher Brooks v. WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2016
- Richard O. Rambaran v. Secretary, Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2016
- James Allyson Lee v. GDCP WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2021
- Robert Earl Butts v. GDCP WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2017
- Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2023
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