United States First Circuit

Denial of defendant's request for habeas relief arising from his conviction for armed assault with intent to murder and assault and batter by means of a dangerous weapon is affirmed where: 1) a state appeals court's analysis of the sufficiency of the evidence was not an unreasonable application of the Supreme Court's standard announced in Jackson given the sufficiently suggestive circumstantial evidence presented; and 2) defendant was not deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/19/2009
• Published 11/19/2009

Judges

• STAHL, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, STAHL, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth Doherty, by Appointment of the Court, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Argie K. Shapiro, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief for respondent.