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WILSON v. WARDEN, GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC PRISON

No. 14-10681.

834 F.3d 1227 (2016)

Marion WILSON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. WARDEN, GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC PRISON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Date Filed: August 23, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Kammer , Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta, GA, Gabrielle Elizabeth Bina , Emily Jane Greb , David James Harth , Lissa Rose Koop , Autumn Noelle Nero , Perkins Coie, LLP, Madison, WI, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Beth Attaway Burton , Sabrina Graham , Britt C. Grant , Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Adam Mortara , Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Adam Mortara.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, JULIE CARNES, and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

This appeal requires us to decide whether, when a federal court reviews a state prisoner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, it must "look through" a summary decision on the merits by a state appellate court to review the last reasoned decision. Marion Wilson, Jr., a Georgia prisoner sentenced to death for the murder...

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