Legal Opinion
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2018No. 14-14178; 15-14734PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
*1333 Jimmy Fletcher Meders, a Georgia prisoner, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition in the Southern District of Georgia raising 18 claims. After the district court denied his petition, Meders moved for a certificate of appealability on several of his claims. The district court granted that motion only as to his claim alleging that trial counsel was ineffective at the guilt phase of his trial. This is his appeal.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Facts
The facts that follow in these two paragraphs are not disputed. On October 13, 1987, Meders went to help his boss, Randy Harris, fix a car at…
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