United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of habeas petition is affirmed over claim that the relationship between a judge presiding over certain hearings and his brother, who was one of the State's lawyers, created an appearance of partiality and violated petitioner's federal constitutional due process rights, requiring reversal of his murder conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/08/2007
• Published 11/08/2007

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrica L. Redfield, Christopher M. Johnson and Stephen B. Bright (Court-Appointed), Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, for Davis.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Clayton Crenshaw, Montgomery, Respondents-Appellees.