JOHNSON v. SECRETARY, DOC

No. 09-15344.

643 F.3d 907 (2011)

Terrell M. JOHNSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, DOC, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 14, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Hennis, III , Neal A. Dupree (Court-Appointed), Capital Collateral Regional Counsel—South, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant.

Kenneth Sloan Nunnelley , Dept. of Legal Affairs, Daytona Beach, FL, for Appellee.

Before CARNES, HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

Earlier this year the Supreme Court reminded lower federal courts that when the state courts have denied an ineffective assistance of counsel claim on the merits, the standard a petitioner must meet to obtain federal habeas relief was intended to be, and is, a difficult one. Harrington v. Richter, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 770, 786, 178 L.Ed.2d 624 (2011). The standard is not whether an error was committed...

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