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Besser v. Walsh

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In habeas petitions filed by multiple petitioners sentenced under New York's persistent offender statute, the orders granting the petitions are...

Sneed v. Johnson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of a death-row inmate's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed where: 1) applying AEDPA deference, defendant has...

Padilla v. Kentucky

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
In postconviction proceedings arising from a drug distribution prosecution, after which petitioner faced deportation based on his guilty plea and...

Thompson v. Frank

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the state's appeal from a district court's order staying a habeas petition filed by a Hawaii state prisoner, the appeal is dismissed where, because...

Berghuis v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings brought by an individual convicted of second degree murder by an all-white jury, the Sixth Circuit's reversal of the denial of...

Harshbarger v. Regan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law
In extradition proceedings of defendant for causing the death of her husband in the Canadian wilderness, district court's denial of defendant's...

Girts v. Yanai

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a prosecution of defendant for the murder of his wife, district court's decision to grant an unconditional writ but not to bar retrial following...

McMullan v. Roper

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a murder prosecution, a denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where a Missouri Supreme Court Rule 74.06 petition did not qualify as a...

Richie v. Workman

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter, a grant of petitioner's habeas petition as to his murder conviction, and denial of the petition as to his kidnapping for...

Bailey v. Hill

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a habeas petition challenging a state court's restitution order entered after petitioner's guilty plea to kidnapping and attempted assault, denial...