MAULDIN v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 82-5958.

723 F.2d 799 (1984)

Rubin J. MAULDIN, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, et al., Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., for Wainwright.

Law Office of William Sheppherd, Steven H. Malone, Jacksonville, Fla., for petitioner-appellee.

Before HILL and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


LEWIS R. MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Rubin Mauldin, the appellee, was convicted of murder by a jury in 1977 in a Florida court. The prosecution sought the death penalty at trial but he received a life sentence. Mauldin subsequently exhausted his state remedies in challenging the conviction and then filed this habeas corpus petition in the District Court for the Northern District of Florida. His primary claim was that he received ineffective assistance of counsel...

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