NEJAD v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF GEORGIA

No. 15-14856.

830 F.3d 1280 (2016)

Ali NEJAD, Petitioner-Appellee, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF GEORGIA, Respondent, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: July 27, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Steel , The Steel Law Firm, PC, Donald Franklin Samuel , Garland Samuel & Loeb, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Paula Khristian Smith , Beth Attaway Burton , Samuel Scott Olens , Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before TJOFLAT, MARCUS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.


A jury in Fulton County, Georgia, found Ali Nejad guilty of sexually assaulting two women on two separate occasions, for which he was sentenced to a total of thirty-five years in prison by the superior court judge. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, he petitioned for federal habeas relief on the ground that his trial counsel...

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