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US v. Olsen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing, Evidence
In challenge to sentence after conviction of knowingly possessing a biological agent, toxin or delivery system for use as a weapon, the denial of...

Cunningham v. Wong

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
In habeas corpus petition challenging a conviction and capital sentence for robbery-murder, denial of petition is affirmed, where: 1) the California...

Ryan v. Valencia Gonzales

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In federal habeas corpus appeals, judgment of the Ninth Circuit is reversed and judgment of the Sixth Circuit is vacated and remanded, where: 1) the...

Henderson v. Johnson

Habeas Corpus
Summary dismissal of "mixed" habeas corpus petition (containing then-unexhausted claims raised in petitioner's concurrent state petition) is reversed...

Loftis v. Almager

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's request for habeas relief challenging his no contest plea to second degree murder is affirmed where: 1)...

Gutierrez v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In appeal from the denial of defendant's writ of habeas corpus following conviction for depraved indifference murder, the judgment is affirmed, where:...

Ortiz v. Yates

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief on his claim that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront adverse...

In re Denham

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Defendant's petition challenging the Board of Parole Hearings' denial of his request for parole is granted where: 1) the record cannot be reconciled...

In re Richards

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for the 1997 murder of his wife, based largely on a circumstantial evidence of a bite mark on the victim, to which a dental...

In re Coronel

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Trial court's grant of defendant's petition for habeas relief from the Board of Parole Hearings' determination that defendant was not yet suitable for...