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LEE v. COMMISSIONER, ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 12-14421.

726 F.3d 1172 (2013)

Jeffery LEE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 1, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Burman , John Thomas Cooke , Nicholas Gellert , Jeffrey Hanson , Charles Sipos , Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, WA, Leslie S. Smith , Federal Defender Program, Inc., Montgomery, AL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Stephanie Reiland , Andrew Lynn Brasher and John Cowles Neiman, Jr. , Attorney General's Office, Montgomery, AL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, DUBINA and HULL, Circuit Judges.

HULL, Circuit Judge:

Alabama death row inmate Jeffery Lee appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. As to his death sentence, the Alabama appellate court held that: (1) Lee's trial counsel was not ineffective in the investigation and presentation of mitigation evidence under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984); (2) the trial...

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