United States Eleventh Circuit

Defense counsel's decision to not introduce evidence that defendant thought victim would not be in her house when he went there is not prejudicial n capital case where other evidence suggested the belief, defendant broke in, and violated a restraining order in being there.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2001
• Published 08/16/2001

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, HULL and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen B. Bright, Atlanta, GA, Christopher M. Johnson, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan V. Boleyn, Mary Beth Westmoreland, State of Georgia Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.