Legal Opinion
Carl J. Isaacs v. Frederick J. Head
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 2002No. 01-11915PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In 1985, this Court granted a writ of habeas corpus based on constitutional infirmities with Carl Isaacs’ 1974 state murder trial. See Isaacs v. Kemp, 778 F.2d 1482 (11th Cir.1985). Afterwards, the State of Georgia retried Isaacs in 1988 on six counts of murder, and Isaacs was again convicted and sentenced to death. Isaacs was denied relief from his conviction and sentence through direct appellate review and through state collateral review, and the case has now made its way to the federal courts again. After Isaacs filed his federal habeas petition, pursuant to 28…
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