Legal Opinion
Cedric Eagle v. Leland Linahan
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 2001No. 98-8166PublishedCited by 403 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In this case, the petitioner, a Georgia prison inmate, seeks a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his conviction for murder. The district court denied the writ, rejecting, among other claims, petitioner’s assertion that his attorney, in appealing his conviction to the Georgia Supreme Court, failed to provide the effective assistance of counsel required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. 1 We conclude that appellate counsel was ineffective in failing to ask the supreme court to set aside the conviction on the ground that petitioner had been denied the equal…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by403 opinions
- Ward v. HallCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2010
- Saiz v. OrtizCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2004
- United States v. Wayne StephensCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
- Davis v. Secretary for the Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Clark v. CrosbyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
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