GUTIERREZ

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (43 total)

• Thompson v. Louie L. Wainwright, 787 F.2d 1447 (11th Cir. 1986)
  …at although a capital defendant’s stated desire not to use character witnesses does not negate the counsel’s duty to investigate, it limits the scope of the investigation required. Gray v. Lucas, 677 F. 2d 1086, 1093-94 (5th Cir.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 910, 103 S.Ct. 1886, 76 L.Ed.2d 815 (1983); see also Martin v. Maggio, 711 F. 2d 1273, 1280 (5th Cir.1983) (defendant’s “instruction that his lawyers obtain an acquittal or the death penalty did not justify his lawyer’s failure to investigate the intoxi…
• Lightbourne v. Dugger, 829 F.2d 1012 (11th Cir. 1987)
  …es v. Metcalfe, 698 F. 2d 877, 882-83 (7th Cir.) (finding no agency where no contact between FBI and informant existed prior to informant’s relating of incriminating statements and where there was no reward or expectation of a reward), cert, denied, 461 U.S. 910, 103 S.Ct. 1886, 76 L.Ed.2d 814 (1983); United States v. Taylor, 800 F. 2d 1012, 1015 (10th Cir.1986) (finding no agency where informant had only expectations of a reward and received none, and where informant received no instructions or directions…

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• United States v. Liefer, 778 F.2d 1236 (7th Cir. 1985)
  …trial court’s failure was plain error. Oxford, 735 F. 2d at 280. We will not find plain error if other competent evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates the defendant’s guilt. See United States v. Metcalfe, 698 F. 2d 877, 883 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 910, 103 S.Ct. 1886, 76 L.Ed.2d 814 (1983). Witnesses Bayles, Schair, Cox, and Vernon Michaels each implicated Patterson as a participant in the charged conspiracy. Further, the records at the “stash house” showed that large amounts of marijuana went t…