Court Opinion

ID: 9478527
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:51:24.22025+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:28.785860
License: Public Domain

WELLFORD, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the opinion of Judge Bailey Brown affirming the grant of habeas corpus relief under the circumstances of this case, but I do not join in the approach taken in Part II. It seems to me doubtful that the trial judge’s responses to the jury’s inquiries would have made clear to the jury the consequences of parole on the sentences given and on what was yet to be decided on the PFO charge. I agree that these responses by the district court, uncertain and confusing in their meaning, should have been a basis for objection at some stage by defendant’s attorney had she performed within objective standards of reasonableness.