United States Eleventh Circuit

In a robbery and kidnapping prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where: 1) the totality of the circumstances here indicated that defendant's waiver of his Miranda rights and his subsequent confession were knowing, intelligent, and voluntary; 2) petitioner failed to show that evidence of his intelligence would have made a difference in the state court's finding that the confession was voluntary; and 3) the Alabama courts' conclusion—that petitioner's trial counsel was not ineffective—was not an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented, nor was it contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2010
• Published 07/20/2010

Judges

• Frank M. Hull

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel