United States Eleventh Circuit

Defense counsel's failure to investigate and present available mitigation evidence at sentencing, after a capital murder conviction, was not prejudicial, where no reasonable probability existed that the sentence would have been different with the inclusion of that evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2002
• Published 08/08/2002

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and HULL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter James Cannon, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Judy Taylor Rush, Kenneth Sloan Nunnelley, Dept. of Legal Affairs, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.