Legal Opinion
Sutton v. Bell
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 8, 2011No. 03-5058PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBoggs, J.
DAUGHTREY, J. (pp. 765-67), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the reasoning and the result of the majority. MARTIN, J. (pp. 767-71), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Nicholas T. Sutton is a Tennessee prisoner sentenced to death for murdering a fellow prisoner. He petitions for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective. We affirm the district court’s denial of habeas relief.
I. Background
On January 15, 1985, Carl Estep, an inmate at Tennessee’s Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility, was…
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