MERCADO v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORR.

No. 22-11903.

119 F.4th 1261 (2024)

Louis Angel MERCADO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: October 21, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Arguin Desrochers, Christopher A. Desrochers, PL, Winter Haven, FL, Louis Angel Mercado, Marion CI — Inmate Legal Mail, Lowell, FL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Pamela J. Koller, Richard Alexander Pallas, Jr., Attorney General's Office, Daytona Beach, FL, Florida Attorney General Service, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before William Pryor, Chief Judge, and Jill Pryor and Brasher, Circuit Judges.


This appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus requires us to decide whether a state court reasonably concluded that a prisoner whose attorney failed to file an appellee's brief in response to the State's direct appeal of an order barring retrial is not...

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