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IN RE: YOUNG

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
A "second strike" prisoner saved the life of a prison employee but could not receive a reduction in sentence for meritorious conduct; court urges the...

US v. TUSH

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Appellant relieved the government of its burden of proving the interstate commerce element in an 18 U.S.C. section 844(i) arson conviction by twice...

BASDEN v. LEE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of all habeas relief after imposition of death sentence was proper where appellant argued that at his trial the state withheld exculpatory...

HUBBELING v. US

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Counsel's failure to comply with Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence in introducing evidence of sexual abuse victim's sexual history was not...

EVERETT v. BEARD

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where an erroneous instruction, explicitly permitting a jury to impute to appellant an accomplice's intent to kill, was not objected to by appellant's...

JOHNSTON v. LUEBBERS

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
In an appeal on numerous grounds after imposition of a death sentence, jury instruction on murder was not ambiguous, claims of ineffective assistance...

PORTLEY-EL v. BRILL

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Due process challenge to discipline was properly dismissed where prisoner failed to show thirty days in punitive segregation was "atypical and...

MOFFAT v. BROYLES

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where a disciplinary committee concluded that plaintiff prisoner had attempted to smuggle two pieces of jewelry into the prison, because he did not...

NADEAU v. MATESANZ

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Habeas petitioner's arguments, that: 1) the trial judge's instructions to the jury violated his constitutional right to present a defense and to have...

CALDWELL v. BELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Because the court was in grave doubt about whether unconstitutional jury instruction, to presume malice from the use of a deadly weapon, prejudiced...