United States First Circuit
Brown v. O'Brien, 11-1037
On petition for habeas corpus brought by a prisoner convicted of first-degree murder in Massachusetts state court, the district court's denial of the petition is affirmed against challenges to the: 1) sufficiency of the evidence; 2) state court's rejection of a jury instruction as to intoxication; 3) court's determination as to the defendant's competency to stand trial; and 4) court's admission into evidence of various statements made by the defendant without holding a sua sponte hearing on their voluntariness.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/24/2012
- Published 01/24/2012
Judges
- Boudin
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Catherine J. Hinton, Jessica V. Barnett