No. 23-5807

Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2023-10-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2023-11-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory statements was an unreasonable application of Strickland-v-Washington?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1) Whether the State Court’s ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner’s inculpatory statements was an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington? 2) Whether the State Court permitting a lay witness to translate a conversation between that witness and Petitioner, deprived Petitioner of due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution? 3) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on either of these issues? ii

Docket Entries

2023-11-13
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2023.
2023-10-24
Waiver of right of respondent Dixon, Sec., FL DOC, et al. to respond filed.
2023-09-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 17, 2023)

Attorneys

Dixon, Sec., FL DOC, et al.
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Fares Mustafa
Fares Mustafa — Petitioner
Fares Mustafa — Petitioner