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ED CARNES, Chief Judge: William Reaves, a Florida prisoner who has been sentenced to death for the.murder of a police officer, sought in the Florida courts habeas relief from his conviction and sentence. When he appealed the summary denial of one of his state post-conviction motions, the Florida Supreme Court held that one claim was moot and remanded

WILSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting: The original panel, of which I was a part, held that Evans met AEDPA’s standard for habeas relief under Strickland because his trial counsel presented absolutely no mental health mitigating evidence at sentencing and wholly failed to conduct a meaningful investigation into Evans’s background. As a result, Evans was sentenced to death without the jury and the sentenc

ORDER CHARLENE EDWARDS HONEYWELL, District Judge. This case is before the Court on the Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief (Doc. No. 1) filed by Richard E. Lynch. Pursuant to the instructions of the Court, Respondents filed a Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. No. 18). Thereafter, Petitioner filed a Reply to the Response (Doc. No. 23). As discussed hereinafter, the habeas petiti

Case: 18-14096 Date Filed: 03/11/2020 Page: 1 of 92 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 18-14096 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 4:16-cv-00

Case: 12-16158 Date Filed: 03/12/2014 Page: 1 of 30 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 12-16158 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 6:08-cv-01719-GAP-KRS JAMES HITCHCOCK,

ED CARNES, Chief Judge: This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment granting in part and denying in part the federal habeas petition of Florida death row inmate Richard Lynch. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He was sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1999 murder of thirty-year-old Roseanna Morgan and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Leah Caday. The State of Flor

Case: 13-11882 Date Filed: 09/05/2014 Page: 1 of 80 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 13-11882 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 5:09-cv-00081-MCR KAYLE

ED CARNES, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:1 On the afternoon of June 14, 1982, Janet White, a State Farm Insurance clerk, returned from lunch around 1:00 p.m., as was her normal practice. As she came into the office, she answered the phone. Unknown to her, she was not alone. She knew that Kayle Barrington Bates had stopped by the office earlier that day, talked with her, and left. She

Case: 14-10486 Date Filed: 02/10/2014 Page: 1 of 20 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 14-10486 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ D.C.

Case: 14-10486 Date Filed: 02/10/2014 Page: 1 of 20 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 14-10486 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ D.C.

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC2023-1498 ____________ DARIOUS WILCOX, Appellant, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ____________ No. SC2024-0785 ____________

2025 WI 24 NICOLE MCDANIEL, et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents-Petitioners, v. WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellant. No. 2022AP1759 Decided June 24, 2025 REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals Milwaukee County Circuit Cou

USCA11 Case: 22-12354 Document: 41-1 Date Filed: 08/08/2025 Page: 1 of 48 [PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-12354 ____________________ AILEEN MULLIN,

PER CURIAM. William Craft petitioned this court for a belated appeal, asserting under oath that he timely asked his trial counsel to file a notice of appeal and that request was not honored. In accordance with Schubert v. State, 737 So.2d 1102 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998), the State obtained a sworn statement from counsel that Craft did not ask him to appeal. This court relinquished jurisdiction with instructions that an evide

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE DAVID W. CRAFT, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) C.A. No. K20M-10-034 NEP ) JANA SIMPLER, Director, ) Division of Motor Vehicles, ) Respondent. )

OPINION SUTTON, Circuit Judge. Constitutional challenges to the enforcement of wage-and-hour laws are not new. By themselves, these cases could tell much of the story of the metes and bounds of federal and state power. As today’s dispute shows, that history continues to unfold. Several corrections officers sued the Michigan Departm

USCA11 Case: 22-12354 Document: 50-1 Date Filed: 12/22/2025 Page: 1 of 49 FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-12354 ____________________ AILEEN MULLIN,

USCA11 Case: 22-10292 Document: 139-1 Date Filed: 06/24/2026 Page: 1 of 73 FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-10292 ____________________ JOSHUA DUNN, et al.,

USCA11 Case: 20-14210 Date Filed: 07/14/2021 Page: 1 of 97 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 20-14210 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:20-cv-03702-JPB RICHARD LEE BROWN, JEFFREY RONDEAU, DAVID K

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, specially concurring in part and dissenting in part.1 I. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) authorizes the district courts to relieve a party to a civil action from the force of a final judgment on the following grounds: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect