Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Securities
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel and the Fourteenth-Amendment-right-to-due-process announced in Strickland-v-Washington, when it denies relief based on assertions of 'strategy' without considering whether that purported strategy was reasonable
question presented in this case is: Whether the Eleventh Circuit’s analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process announced in Strickland v. Washington, when it denies relief based on assertions of “strategy” without considering whether that purported strategy was reasonable? ii