WRIGHT v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 13-11832.

761 F.3d 1256 (2014)

Joel Dale WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin J. McClain , McClain & McDermott, PA, Wilton Manors, FL, Neal A. Dupree , Michael Chance Meyer , Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Mitchell David Bishop , Attorney General's Office, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, HULL and WILSON, Circuit Judges.


HULL, Circuit Judge:

Joel Dale Wright, a Florida inmate, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, raising multiple challenges to his capital conviction and death sentence. The district court denied Wright's petition, but granted a certificate of appealability ("COA") as to two guilt phase claims, alleging Brady1 violations and ineffective trial counsel, and one death sentence claim, involving an invalid...

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