Legal Opinion
Leroy Pooler v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 17, 2012No. 12-12059PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
Florida death row inmate Leroy Pooler appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Pooler argues that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in the penalty phase of his murder trial for (1) failing to discover that certain information Pooler himself told counsel about his background was false, and (2) relying on court-appointed competency experts to testify instead of retaining defense experts to investigate mitigation evidence specifically. The Florida state courts denied Pooler’s ineffective assistance of…
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