United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant cannot sustain ineffective assistance of counsel claim for counsel's failure to present mitigating evidence at the sentencing phase of his trial where he instructed his counsel on numerous occasions not to present such evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2000
• Published 12/01/2000

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David G. Russell,Nancy H. Baughan, Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Beth Westmoreland, Paula Khristian Smith, State of Georgia Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.