all - Opinion Summaries

WHITEHEAD v. DORMIRE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Evidence was sufficient to support state court findings that petitioner acted with the purpose of causing serious injury, as required for a second...

GUY v. COCKRELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The record is insufficient to make a determination whether failure to fully investigate petitioner's mitigation evidence resulted from an...

ROMAN v. ASHCROFT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
A detained alien generally must designate his immediate custodian as the respondent to his habeas corpus petition; circumstances of the petition are...

RISDAL v. MATHES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
State court order requiring court clerk to monitor frequent filer's new suits, and to bring the matters to the court's attention for the possible...

SPEARS v. MULLIN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The district court's grant of habeas relief as to two death sentences is affirmed, and denial of any further habeas relief is affirmed, over numerous...

BIGGS v. DUNCAN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
For purposes of 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(2), an application for post-conviction relief was not "pending" between the end of a first round of...

PAINE v. MASSIE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Petitioner's claim that her trial counsel's performance was unreasonably deficient for failing to present expert testimony on battered woman syndrome...

ROUSE v. LEE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A federal habeas petition was filed after the expiration of the 1-year AEDPA limitations period, including statutory tolling. Because petitioner...

BARNES v. ELO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Trial counsel's strategic decision to enter into a stipulation as to petitioner's medical condition rather than call medical witnesses was not...

SOLIS v. COCKRELL

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of habeas relief from a Texas conviction for burglary of a habitation is affirmed, as a juror's belief that petitioner and his brothers had a...