United States First Circuit

District court judgment denying petition for habeas corpus is affirmed where: 1) a state court's conclusion that the nondisclosure of a nonprosecution agreement with a key witness could not have influenced the jury was not contrary to or involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law; and 2) its conclusion that defendant failed to establish that the Commonwealth had a duty to investigate or disclose additional details about an informant was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of Supreme Court precedent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• HANSEN, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, HANSEN, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen B. Hrones, with whom Michael Tumposky was on brief, for Joseph McLaughlin, appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Reardon, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief, for Michael Corsini, appellee.