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In re Sagin

California Court of Appeal
Habeas Corpus, Evidence, Criminal Law & Procedure
Vacated conviction. Defendant was sentenced to life without parole for the conviction of a murder in 1986. He petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus...
08/30/2019 H044767

In re Vaquera

California Court of Appeal
Habeas Corpus, Sentencing, Constitutional Law
Denied writ of habeas corpus. Defendant was convicted of lewd acts against two minors under the age of 14. Penal Code 667.61 provides that if there...
08/28/2019 G056786

Janusiak v. Cooper

United States Seventh Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
Affirmed. The state court determination that the long questioning and reference to access to her children were not coercion was affirmed, where a...
08/22/2019 19-1198

Panah v. Chappell

United States Ninth Circuit
Habeas Corpus
Affirmed. Even assuming there was no reasonable basis for the state court to deny the claim as to the first two requirements under Napue v. Illinois,...
08/21/2019 13-99010

In re Rigsby

California Court of Appeal
Habeas Corpus, Administrative Law
Reversed order granting writ of habeas corpus. Defendant, Rigsby, is serving a life sentence for murder. While in prison, prison officials found...
08/20/2019 F075680

In Re: Larry Swearingen

United States Fifth Circuit
Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denied. The fourth federal habeas corpus petition and fifth motion to stay execution of a man convicted as a minor of capital murder were denied...
08/19/2019 19-20565

Pizzuto v. Blades

United States Ninth Circuit
Habeas Corpus
Affirmed. Pizzuto’s habeas corpus petition challenged the Idaho Supreme Court’s 2008 decision that his execution was not barred by a state law...
08/14/2019 Pizzuto v. Blades

In Re: Dexter Johnson

United States Fifth Circuit
Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
Partially denied, partially granted. The motion for habeas corpus of a death row inmate was denied as lacking merit, but a claim relating to the...
08/14/2019 19-20552

US v. Sainz

United States Ninth Circuit
Habeas Corpus
Reversed and remanded. Reversed the district court’s denial of a motion for a sentence reduction. Held that a district court may not sua sponte raise...
08/12/2019 17-10310

In re Masters

Supreme Court of California
Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denied habeas corpus relief. Masters was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. His judgment was affirmed in an automatic appeal. He...
08/12/2019 S130495
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