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Cox v. Ayers

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter, the denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where: 1) petitioner was not prejudiced by the trial court's...

Sacirbey v. Guccione

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law
In a habeas petition challenging an order extraditing plaintiff to Bosnia, denial of the petition is reversed where the relevant arrest warrant was...

Woods v. Schwartz

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief following his conviction for murder and sentence to forty years' imprisonment is...

Robinson v. Kramer

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a drug possession prosecution, denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where petitioner never raised a claim for unconstitutional denial...

Pinholster v. Ayers

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a capital habeas matter, grant of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where defense counsel provided petitioner ineffective assistance at the...

Holder v. Palmer

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus following his conviction for sexual penetration with an uninformed partner...

Cooey v. Strickland

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
District court's denial of defendant's request for a stay of execution by lethal injection under Ohio's new protocol where the state eliminated the...

McAfee v. Thurmer

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief from a conviction and life sentence for the first degree murder of a police officer 13 years ago is...

Beard v. Kindler

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a capital habeas matter involving whether Pennsylvania's fugitive forfeiture rule provided an adequate basis to bar federal habeas review of...

Cummings v. Sec'y., Dept. of Corrs.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a capital habeas matter, denial of petitioner's habeas petition is affirmed where defense counsel did not provide ineffective assistance during the...