EAGLE v. LINAHAN

No. 98-8166.

268 F.3d 1306 (2001)

Cedric EAGLE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Leland LINAHAN, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Decided October 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Chapman Bell, Augusta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Mary Beth Westmoreland, State of Georgia Law Dept., Atlanata, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, WILSON and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In this case, the petitioner, a Georgia prison inmate, seeks a writ of habeas corpus setting aside his conviction for murder. The district court denied the writ, rejecting, among other claims, petitioner's assertion that his attorney, in appealing his conviction to the Georgia Supreme Court, failed to provide the effective assistance of counsel required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.1 We conclude that appellate...

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