SOCHOR v. SECRETARY DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 10-14944.

685 F.3d 1016 (2012)

Dennis SOCHOR, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel Lawrence Day (Court-Appointed), Neal A. Dupree (Court-Appointed), Anna-Liisa Nixon (Court-Appointed), Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-South, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Celia Terenzio , Atty. General's Office, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, MARCUS and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

The main issue in this appeal concerns whether the Supreme Court of Florida unreasonably applied clearly established federal law when it explicitly refused to consider relevant mental health evidence in its collateral review of a sentence of death. Dennis Sochor, a serial rapist sentenced to death after he confessed to the murder and kidnapping of an eighteen-year-old woman, argues that the ruling of the Supreme Court of Florida that the failure...

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