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MYARTT v. FRANK

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed over his claim that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when...

JACOBS v. HORN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is reversed where his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance during the guilt phase by failing to...

AUGUSTE v. RIDGE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
In order to constitute torture under the United Nations Convention against Torture, an act must be inflicted with the specific intent to cause severe...

GARCIA v. CAREY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
The grant of habeas relief is affirmed where there was constitutionally insufficient evidence to support the imposition of gang and gun sentencing...

LITTLE v. HOLDER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed over his challenge that he is entitled to credit against his federal sentence for the time he spent...

MUNGO v. DUNCAN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed where the state court's admission of hearsay statements made by the murder victim just before his...

COOKS v. NEWLAND

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed over his contention that the trial court should not have consolidated two separate criminal cases in...

WHITING v. BURT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The conditional grant of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is vacated where the district court applied the incorrect standard to...

SOUTER v. JONES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition, on the ground that it was barred by the statute of limitations, is reversed where plaintiff has demonstrated a...

GUIDRY v. DRETKE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
The district court properly granted conditional habeas relief to defendant on the ground that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of murder...