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OUBER v. GUARINO

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defense counsel's abrupt and unjustified abandonment of the promise that defendant would testify, after staking the defense on the strength of that...
06/17/2002 01-2390

WILLINGHAM v. MULLIN

United States Tenth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A defendant convicted of first degree murder is not entitled to habeas relief, after discussion of ten issues certified for review, including refusal...
06/17/2002 01-6071

CAREY v. SAFFOLD

United States Supreme Court
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A state prisoner's application for state collateral review is "pending", for purposes of tolling the one-year time period to seek federal habeas...
06/17/2002 01-301

FIERRO v. COCKRELL

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A motion for authorization to file a successive petition is not itself an "application for a writ of habeas corpus," and because late filing of a...
06/13/2002 01-50400

MIRANDA v. CASTRO

United States Ninth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A habeas petitioner's reliance on the erroneous advice of appointed counsel did not amount to "extraordinary circumstances beyond appellant's control"...
06/12/2002 01-56124

BURLESON v. SAFFLE

United States Tenth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The Oklahoma case of Locke v. State, 943 P.2d 1090, and its holding related to "drive-by" shootings, cannot be applied retroactively, and appellant's...
06/12/2002 00-6254

FOSTER v. JOHNSON

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant-s ineffective-assistance of counsel claim based on failure to present and investigate "mental health" mitigating evidence, "family...
06/07/2002 01-60270

SISTRUNK v. ARMENAKIS

United States Ninth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Petition for writ of habeas corpus was properly denied, where defendant's attempts to discredit and impeach witness testimony did not constitute...
06/06/2002 99-36000

VINCENT v. JONES

United States Sixth Circuit
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A state trial judge's comments, coupled with the state court's docket entry, indicate that a directed verdict was granted on a first degree murder...
06/06/2002 00-2441

FITZGERALD v. WITHROW

United States Sixth Circuit
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant's waiver of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was valid for a bench trial by any judge on the court (not just by the judge who took...
06/06/2002 00-2126

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