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US v. HOREY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Failure to object to an undisputedly inapplicable career offender enhancement that increased both defendant's total offense level and his criminal...

IN RE FARLEY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Subdivisions (b)(1) and (b)(2) of section 3377.1 of title 15 of the California Code of Regulations provide for independent grounds for attaching an...

US v. SWINTON

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
The rule of law announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in Apprendi does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral review.

MURRELL v. FRANK

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The Wisconsin state court properly identified and applied Strickland as the governing standard in an ineffective assistance claim, and reasonably...

SEARCY v. JAIMET

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
An Illinois court's decision regarding the scope of petitioner's cross-examination rights, in response to his 6th Amendment claim related to his right...

COCKETT v. RAY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A habeas petitioner did not meet her burden of placing a state procedural default defense at issue, and a Confrontation Clause claim is procedurally...

UPCHURCH v. BRUCE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A decision denying post-conviction relief, where petitioner argued that counsel was deficient for not arguing that there was insufficient evidence for...

ORTEGA v. DUNCAN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where petitioner's conviction was obtained via perjured testimony of a purported witness to the crime, the district court erred in focusing solely on...

HICKS v. HEAD

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Violations of Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68, 105 S. Ct. 1087, 84 L. Ed. 2d 53 (1985), are subject to harmless error analysis, and the Ake violation in...

EGERTON v. COCKRELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petitioner's state habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. section 2254 petition as time-barred is reversed where an inadequate prison law library...