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· 5/28/2015

Michael Allen Griffin v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Citations

  • 787 F.3d 1086
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 8996
  • 2015 WL 3407303

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • rejecting argument that Rule 60(b)(5) permits petitioners to use Martinez and Trevino to raise ineffective-assistance claims that were denied in a previous federal habeas proceeding as procedurally defaulted
  • discussing the high bar that faces an appellant raising an insufficiency challenge
  • citing, inter alia, Agostini v. Felton, 521 U.S. 203, 239 (1997)
  • “When the writ is granted, the judgment typically enjoins the State to retry or resentence the petitioner within a specified period of time or release him.”
  • “Martinez . . . is not retroactively applicable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Carnes, Julie, Pryor, William

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