(DOWNLOAD) "Hill v. Turpin" by Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hill v. Turpin
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 25, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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BARKETT, Circuit Judge: Georgia Warden Tony Turpin (""the state"") appeals from the district court's order granting in part Floyd Ernest Hill's petition for federal habeas corpus relief as to his death sentence. Hill cross-appeals from the district court's denial of all of his claims challenging the validity of his conviction, as well as from the denial of the balance of his claims pertaining to his death sentence. Because we find that the prosecution's repeated and deliberate references throughout Hill's trial to his post- Miranda silence and request for counsel violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, we REVERSE the district court's denial of relief as to this claim, VACATE his conviction, and REMAND with instructions to grant the writ of habeas corpus. All remaining issues having thereby become moot, we do not address them.