United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of a habeas petition was correct where 1) a state court decision in an ineffective assistance claim during the guilt-innocence phase was not outside the range of applicable decisions, and 2) petitioner failed to establish prejudice in support of an ineffective assistance claim at the penalty phase.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2002
• Published 11/12/2002

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Evan Olive (Appointed by District Court), Law Offices of Mark E. Olive, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, Gretchen Mary Stork (Appointed by District Court), Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan V. Boleyn, State Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.