Court Opinion

ID: 9474225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:51:21.974619+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:58.216106
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TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I would dismiss this appeal for want of a final judgment; the district court’s dispositive order, granting a portion of the habeas relief petitioner requested, did not dispose of all of petitioner’s claims. My view that we must dismiss an appeal from a partial final judgment (absent Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) certification) in a habeas corpus case, however, has been rejected by this court. Blake v. Kemp, 758 F.2d 523, 535-43 (11th Cir.) (Tjoflat, J., dissenting), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 106 S.Ct. 374, 88 L.Ed.2d 367 (1985). But see Blake v. Kemp, — U.S. at —, 106 S.Ct. at 374 (White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari); Stewart v. Bishop, 403 F.2d 674, 679-80 (8th Cir.1968). Blake instructs that we entertain this appeal. Doing so, I concur in Judge Anderson’s treatment of the merits of petitioner’s claim that the prosecutor’s closing argument rendered the sentencing phase of his jury trial fundamentally unfair.