Legal Opinion
Jimmy Lee Horton v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 1991No. 90-8522PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner, Jimmy Lee Horton, under a sentence of death, appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas petition. We reverse the district court’s disposition of the case on three of the claims. In doing so, we note that each of the claims constitutes an independent basis for granting the writ.
I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE
A. Background Facts
On the evening of November 28, 1980, Jimmy Lee Horton and Pless Brown borrowed Hamp Davis’ pickup truck in order to commit several burglaries. Early in the evening, Horton and Brown broke into a house and stole a black barrelled .22…
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