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BARBOUR v. HALEY

No. 06-10920.

471 F.3d 1222 (2006)

Christopher BARBOUR, Tony Barksdale, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Michael HALEY, in his official capacity as Commissioner, for the Alabama Department of Corrections, Stephen Bullard, in his official capacity as Warden of William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 8, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela L. Setzer, Bryan A. Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative of AL, Montgomery, AL, Stephen F. Hanlon, Holland & Knight, LLP, Washington, DC, Laurie Webb Daniel, Holland & Knight, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Margaret L. Fleming, Winfield J. Sinclair, James Roy Houts, J. Clayton Crenshaw, Kevin Christopher Newsom, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before ANDERSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and VINSON, District Judge.

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee Appellants, indigent Alabama death-sentenced inmates ("the inmates"), the right to state-appointed counsel or some lesser form of state-provided legal assistance for the preparation and presentation of their postconviction claims. Relying upon United States Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit precedents, as we...

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