United States First Circuit

District court's denial of plaintiff's petition for habeas relief is reversed where: 1) given the circumstantial evidence in this case, even when drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of the prosecution, a rational jury could not find plaintiff's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; and 2) the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision to uphold plaintiff's conviction was objectively unreasonable. District court is ordered to grant the petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2009
• Published 06/10/2009

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, BALDOCK, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth I. Seiger, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott A. Katz, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief for appellee.