Legal Opinion
Larry Gene Hull v. Kenneth Kyler, Superintendent Pa Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 10, 1999No. 97-7551PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
This habeas corpus case is before us for the third time. Twenty years ago, petitioner Larry Gene Hull was convicted of first-degree murder in a Pennsylvania state court and sentenced to life imprisonment. For the past thirteen years, Hull has sought to have that conviction overturned on the ground that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at a pretrial competency hearing. Although the state courts have rejected his ineffectiveness claim, we have held that his counsel’s performance was constitutionally deficient. See Hull v. Freeman, 932 F.2d…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- O'Sullivan v. BoerckelSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by52 opinions
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- Lewis v. ZonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2008
- Robert E. Wenger, Jr. v. Frederick K. Frank Attorney General of PennsylvaniaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
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