Legal Opinion
Virgil Lee Brownlee v. Michael Haley
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 16, 2002No. 00-15858PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Virgil Lee Brownlee appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging both his 1987 conviction for the murder of Lathen Aaron Dodd and the death sentence imposed as a result of that conviction by the Circuit Court for Jefferson County, Alabama. Although we agree with the district court that the underlying conviction was constitutionally firm, Brownlee plainly received ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing in light of his attorneys’ failure to investigate, obtain, or present to the jury any evidence in mitigation of the…
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