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HOLGERSON v. KNOWLES

United States Ninth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A habeas petitioner's argument, that California's decision to count his out-of-state convictions as strikes when it sentenced him under California's...
11/05/2002 01-15804

ESPARZA v. MITCHELL

United States Sixth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A habeas writ was correctly issued where the state violated the Eighth Amendment and Ohio law in failing to either charge defendant in the indictment...
11/05/2002 00-4615, 01-3025

GITTEN v. US

United States Second Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A district court has some flexibility, but must be careful not to precipitously treat an FRCP 60(b) motion as a second collateral attack requiring...
11/04/2002 02-3621

SMITH v. COCKRELL

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
State court determination, that defense counsel's purported failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence relating to mental retardation and...
11/04/2002 01-21209

ROE v. BAKER

United States Sixth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2254 affirmed, where all seven alleged procedural errors by...
10/31/2002 00-4260

US v. HARRIS

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
District court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence concerning possession of firearms in drug prosecution, and it did not err in denying...
10/31/2002 02-1036

US v. BLUEFORD

United States Ninth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Prosecutor's actions in asking jury to infer that defendant had fabricated his alibi when the government had evidence contradicting its own...
10/30/2002 00-10210

ABELA v. MARTIN

United States Sixth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Because defendant's section 2254 habeas petition is barred by the statute of limitations set forth in 28 U.S.C. section 2244(d)(1), his claims of a...
10/30/2002 00-2430

CHAVEZ v. COCKRELL

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Plaintiff's habeas corpus claim, that he was denied the presumption of innocence and the right to an impartial jury when the "stun belt" he was forced...
10/29/2002 02-10050

PADILLA v. TERHUNE

United States Ninth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Although the admission of hearsay evidence at plaintiff's trial for murder violated the Confrontation Clause, given the strength of the prosecution's...
10/29/2002 01-56325

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