United States Sixth Circuit

District court's grant of defendant's writ of habeas corpus from her conviction of first degree murder is reversed as, in its sufficiency-of-the-evidence review, the district court failed to accord the deference due to the judgment of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2009
• Decided 12/21/2009
• Published 12/21/2009

Judges

• Before MARTIN, ROGERS, and COOK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Francis R. Borger-Gilligan, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Sumter L. Camp, Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:Elizabeth T. Ryan, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Sumter L. Camp, Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.