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STYRON v. JOHNSON

United States Fifth Circuit
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Murder of a child under six is a sufficiently narrow statutory aggravating factor for consideration of the death penalty, so capital punishment on the...
08/15/2001 99-40539

GLOVER v. MIRO

United States Fourth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Limited contact with one attorney, limited time that a second attorney had to prepare defendant's case and to investigate the potential alibi...
08/15/2001 00-7663

SMITH v. US

United States Sixth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
A defendant who does not meet the "in custody" requirement of 28 USC 2254 may not attack the constitutional validity of predicate state convictions...
08/15/2001 99-3340

SELLAN v. KUHLMAN

United States Second Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A state court decision as to a particular federal claim can constitute an "adjudication on the merits" within the meaning of AEDPA even when the state...
08/14/2001 99-2632

SIERS v. WEBER

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
State court determination that defendant did not suffer ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel did not interview defendant's sister as an...
08/14/2001 00-3124

US v. PAYTON

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A petitioner claiming ineffective assistance of counsel based on a conflict of interest must substantiate the claim with more than a declaration from...
08/14/2001 00-3063

KOSTE v. DORMIRE

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A court should conduct an evidentiary hearing when defendant raises a potential conflict of interest claim against his attorney at the plea allocution...
08/13/2001 00-3791

BERG v. MASCHNER

United States Eighth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Evidence that officers saw defendant shoot and kill fellow officer and immediately apprehended defendant after the shooting is sufficient evidence of...
08/13/2001 00-2994

HENDERSON v. SCOTT

United States Tenth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
An Oklahoma law that retroactively reduced the frequency of parole reviews does not violate the ex post facto clause.
08/13/2001 00-6374

BURDINE v. JOHNSON

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant's counsel repeated sleeping throughout the guilt-innocence phase of his capital murder trial compels a presumption that his unconsciousness...
08/13/2001 99-21034

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