United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of habeas petition, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, is affirmed where petitioner has not shown that a different result in the trial would have occurred if counsel had objected trial to the closing of the courtroom rather than failing to do so.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2006
• Published 06/06/2006

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, HULL and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Mallory Kent, Law Office of William Mallory Kent, Jacksonville, FL, for Purvis.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca Roark Wall, Kellie A. Nielan, Florida Atty. Gen. Office, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.