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CLISBY v. STATE OF ALA.

No. 93-6537.

26 F.3d 1054 (1994)

Willie CLISBY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Fred Smith, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, and W.E. Johnson, Warden, Holman Unit, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 12, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathy S. Wright, Tony G. Miller, Deborah J. Long, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Steven T. Marshall, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for petitioner-appellant.

Beth Jackson Hughes, Alabama Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for respondents-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH, EDMONDSON and COX, Circuit Judges.

EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

In this death penalty case, defendant Willie Clisby appeals the district court's denial of his ineffective assistance of counsel claim, brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). The case involves a brutal murder committed by a person who had killed before. The detailed facts are set out in two earlier opinions. See Clisby...

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