Flood v. United States

PETER J. MESSITTE, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

James Everett Flood, III has filed a Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct a Sentence by a Person in Federal Custody, ECF No. 396, raising several claims of denial of effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. Having previously denied one of Flood's claims for relief as well as the same claim raised by his co-defendant Kenneth Lighty-namely, that their counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to object to the Government's purported use of its peremptory juror strikes in a…