United States Tenth Circuit

Where a judge's remarks made it reasonably likely that the jury would overestimate the amount of latitude it had in defining the reasonable doubt standard, it would be an unreasonable application of federal law to uphold a conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2003
• Published 08/29/2003

Judges

• MCCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McWILLIAMS, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Madeline S. Cohen, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Michael G. Katz, Federal Public Defender, and James P. Moran, Assistant Federal Public Defender, with her on the briefs), Denver, Colorado, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick T. Crawley, Assistant Attorney General (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, with him on the brief), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Respondents-Appellees.