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YOUNG v. WALLS

United States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
State court's finding, that defendant's mental shortcomings did not prevent him from making effective confessions due to his limited understanding of...
11/22/2002 02-1221

HOUSE v. BELL

United States Sixth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In order to ascertain whether there remains a state avenue open to process a habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of aggravating elements and...
11/22/2002 00-6136

L'ABBE v. DIPAOLO

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision, extending the right of a voluntary and knowing waiver of the right to be present at trial to capital...
11/19/2002 01-2557

CARTER v. US

United States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a motion that is converted, without the required notice and opportunity to withdraw, to a motion to vacate a criminal judgment under section...
11/19/2002 01-2948

HARRIS v. COCKRELL

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A jury in a capital trial was not unconstitutionally precluded from giving mitigating effect to evidence of petitioner's alcoholism, and admission of...
11/18/2002 01-41395

ZAYAS v. INS

United States Third Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
Dismissal of a 28 U.S.C. section 2241 habeas petition is affirmed under the "abuse of the writ" doctrine expressed in McCleskey v. Grant, 499 U.S....
11/18/2002 01-2564

ROBINSON v. JOHNSON

United States Third Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Commonwealth's assertion of the affirmative defense of the statute of limitations to a habeas petition under the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death...
11/18/2002 00-1979

COALITION OF CLERGY, LAWYERS, & LAW PROFESSORS v. BUSH

United States Ninth Circuit
Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law
A coalition group lacked next-friend and third party standing to bring a habeas petition on behalf of persons captured in Afghanistan and detained by...
11/18/2002 02-55367

GRUNING v. DIPAOLO

United States First Circuit
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A Massachusetts state court did not violate a habeas petitioner's constitutional rights when it refused to provide him with exclusive access to an...
11/15/2002 02-1341

LINDSEY v. US

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Claim that counsel was ineffective at sentencing, in failing to object to drug quantity assigned in a pre-sentence report, is rejected, as even if...
11/15/2002 01-3940

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