JONES v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 17-10693.

906 F.3d 1339 (2018)

Philip Walter JONES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Vernon Burch , Alex Weathersby , University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Thomas Howland Duffy , Donna Antoinette Gerace , Attorney General's Office, Pam Bondi , Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before WILSON and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges, and VINSON, District Judge.


In June 2006, the petitioner, Philip Walter Jones, was convicted in a Florida state court of aggravated domestic battery (for shooting his wife) and sentenced to 20 years incarceration. After his conviction became final on September 18, 2007, he filed numerous motions for post-conviction relief in state court (including two...

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