United States First Circuit

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 precludes federal district court from granting habeas relief to petitioner convicted of first degree murder, where his defenses were adjudicated in state court consistent with Supreme Court precedent and were reasonably applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2000
• Published 10/25/2000

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Willie J. Davis, with whom Davis, Robinson & White, LLP, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth Klein Frumkin, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee.