Legal Opinion
Ferguson Ex Rel. Ferguson v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2009No. 05-13595, 05-13877PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
John Errol Ferguson (“Ferguson”), a Florida prisoner convicted of murder and sentenced to death, filed a federal habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he made at least eleven claims. He also moved to stay the federal habeas proceedings based on his alleged incompetency, a motion denied by the district court, which held an evidentiary hearing on the issue and found him competent to proceed with the petition. The court subsequently denied Ferguson’s petition in its entirety, but granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on all of the issues…
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3Cited by66 opinions
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