NEGEWO

v.

ABEBE-JIRI ET AL.

Citator

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• Wellons v. Comm'r, Ga. Dep't OF Corr., 754 F.3d 1260 (11th Cir. 2014)
  …r other constitutional claims. I. BACKGROUND Wellons was convicted of the malice murder and rape of fifteen-year-old India Roberts on June 6, 1993. The Supreme Court denied his petition for writ of certio-rari on direct appeal. Wellons v. Georgia, 519 U.S. 830, 117 S.Ct. 97, 136 L.Ed.2d 52 (1996). Following denial of state habeas relief, Wellons filed a federal petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Northern District of Georgia, which was also denied. This court affirmed the denial of habeas relief, W…
• Wellons v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic AND Classification Prison, 695 F.3d 1202 (11th Cir. 2012)
  …me Court of Georgia affirmed the state trial court’s Batson decision and Wellons’s convictions and sentences. Wellons v. State, 266 Ga. 77, 463 S.E. 2d 868 (1995). After the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari, Wellons v. Georgia, 519 U.S. 830, 117 S.Ct. 97, 136 L.Ed.2d 52 (1996), Wellons sought state habeas corpus relief, which was denied in an unpublished order on July 20, 1998. The Georgia Supreme Court, on January 9, 2001, denied Wellons’s application for a certificate of probable ca…
• Wellons v. Hilton Hall, 554 F.3d 923 (11th Cir. 2009)
  …ly introduce the idea of mental illness in the guilt-innocence phase of trial, and then to bring every effort to bear in mitigation. Id. at 876-77. The United States Supreme Court denied Wellons’s petition for writ of certiorari. Wellons v. Georgia, 519 U.S. 830, 117 S.Ct. 97, 136 L.Ed.2d 52 (1996). Wellons subsequently petitioned the Superior Court of Butts County for state habeas relief. He attacked his conviction and sentence on the grounds that, among other things, the Sabel ruling created a structura…