Wilson v. Workman, No. 11-5031 (10th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant Michael Lee Wilson was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in Oklahoma state court and sentenced to death. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) ordered dismissal of his robbery conviction but affirmed his murder conviction and death sentence. Defendant sought a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, but the district court denied his application. The Tenth Circuit affirmed in part, but vacated and remanded for an evidentiary hearing on Defendant's claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of his trial. After holding the evidentiary hearing, the district court ruled that Defendant had failed to establish that his trial counsel had performed deficiently or that counsel's alleged failures had affected the outcome of the penalty phase, and it denied the writ. The district court granted Defendant a certificate of appealability (COA) on his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim, and Defendant appealed. In light of the evidence presented at the hearing before the district court, the Tenth Circuit concluded Defendant did not show that he was prejudiced by the alleged deficiencies in his counsel's performance at trial. The Court therefore affirmed the denial of Defendant's habeas application.
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