Brandy Bain Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process announced in Strickland v. Washington, when it denies relief based on the assertion that substantial postconviction mitigation would have undercut the minimal mitigation presented at trial, which the sentencing court deemed to be of minimal weight?
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process announced in Strickland v. Washington