JEMMOTT

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (28 total)

• Stevens v. State, 552 So. 2d 1082 (Fla. 1989)
  …her to make any preparations for the penalty phase of a capital murder trial deprives his client of reasonably effective assistance of counsel by any objective standard of reasonableness.” Blake v. Kemp, 758 F. 2d 523, 533 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 998, 106 S.Ct. 374, 88 L.Ed.2d 367 (1985). At the very least, any evidence presented and any plausible arguments made to the trial court could have provided the trial court with a basis to follow the jury’s recommendation of a life sentence. We find tha…
• Harris v. State, 528 So. 2d 361 (Fla. 1988)
  …eyond cavil that an attorney who fails altogether to make any preparations for the penalty phase of a capital murder trial deprives his client of reasonably effective assistance of counsel by any objective standard of reasonableness”), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 998, 106 S.Ct. 374, 88 L.Ed.2d 367 (1985). Courts have found deficient performance based upon errors less far-reaching than counsels’ error in this case. See Tyler v. Kemp, 755 F. 2d 741 (11th Cir.1985); Armstrong v. Dugger, 833 F. 2d 1430 (11th Cir.1…
• Bolender v. Singletary, 16 F.3d 1547 (11th Cir. 1994)
  …Blanco v. Singletary, 943 F. 2d 1477, 1501-02 (11th Cir.1991), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 2282, 119 L.Ed.2d 207, and cert. denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 2290, 119 L.Ed.2d 213 (1992); Blake v. Kemp, 758 F. 2d 523, 533 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 998, 106 S.Ct. 374, 88 L.Ed.2d 367 (1985). In addition, trial counsel employed the results of his investigation in the manner best calculated in his judgment to achieve the result he tactically sought: a quick, unanimous recommendation of life impriso…