Opinion ID: 73125
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Heading: Guilt Phase Ineffective Assistance of

Text: Counsel (I - V and IX(1) in the district court opinion)2 2 In the district court, among the ineffective assistance issues Provenzano raised were some relating to the separation of the jury between the guilt and sentence stages. He claimed counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the separation instructions as inadequate and for failing to request that the judge question the jurors in depth when they returned for the penalty stage. However, he did not raise in the district court the claim that counsel were ineffective for failing to object to the separation itself. That claim appears for the first time in Provenzano’s briefs to this Court. Because he did not raise the claim below, we do not consider it. See, e.g., Walker v. Jones, 10 F.3d 1569, 1572 (11th Cir. 1994); Allen v. Alabama, 728 F.2d 1384, 1387 (11th Cir. 1984). 4