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Payne v. Allen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a capital case, denial of a petition for writ habeas corpus challenging the sentence is affirmed where petitioner failed to show a state courts'...

Beuke v. Houk

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Dismissal of a petition for writ of habeas corpus in a death penalty case is affirmed over claims of error regarding whether: 1) petitioner...

Wrinkles v. Buss

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petition for a writ of habeas corpus based upon ineffective assistance of counsel during a murder trial is affirmed where: 1) counsel's...

King v. Schriro

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a death penalty case is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) prosecutorial misconduct by...

Wilson v. Sirmons

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a death penalty case is affirmed in part, but remanded in part for an evidentiary hearing where...

Washington v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Application seeking authorization to file a successive collateral attack is construed instead as a notice of appeal and forwarded to the clerk for...

Johnson v. Norris

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of habeas relief in a death penalty case is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) whether petitioner's rights under the Sixth and...

Forsyth v. Ault

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Health Law
Denial of habeas relief from convictions for first-degree murder for the deaths of petitioner's estranged wife, his three children, and two children...

Lott v. Bagley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of habeas relief in a death penalty case is affirmed where: 1) new evidence of prosecutorial wrongdoing did not undermine the finding of guilt;...

Shere v. Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Corr.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of habeas relief for death row inmate is affirmed over claims of error that: 1) prosecutor's Biblical references during cross-examination were...