Pooler v. Secretary, FL DOC, et al, No. 12-12059 (11th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseAppellant, a death row inmate, appealed the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On appeal, appellant argued that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in the penalty phase of his murder trial. The Florida state courts denied appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claims based on counsel's failure to discover that certain information appellant had told counsel about his background was false and counsel's reliance on court-appointed competency experts to testify instead of retaining defense experts to investigate mitigation evidence specifically. The court concluded, as did the district court, that the state court's judgment was not contrary to, or based on an unreasonable application of, Supreme Court precedent. Accordingly, the court affirmed the denial of the petition.
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