NORRIS v. U.S.

No. 15-10390.

820 F.3d 1261 (2016)

Harrison NORRIS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 25, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Regina Cannon Stephenson , Stephanie A. Kearns , Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Susan Coppedge , John Andrew Horn , J. Elizabeth McBath , Erin Sanders , Lawrence R. Sommerfeld, U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, Karima G. Maloney , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Evan S. Weitz , U.S. Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, ANDERSON, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court erred by denying an evidentiary hearing for Harrison Norris's motion to vacate, 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which alleged that his conviction violated the Due Process Clause because his trial judge was biased against him and mentally incompetent. Norris, a black...

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