United States Eleventh Circuit

In a murder case, defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to use hospital records relating to defendant's intoxication on the night of the murder where additional hospital records indicated defendant knew of the crime and appreciated the criminality of his conduct on the night in question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2001
• Published 07/16/2001

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and HULL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen B. Bright (Court-Appointed), Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Clayton Crenshaw, Montgomery, AL, for Respondent-Appellee.