| Description | Date | Docket # |
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In re SaginCalifornia 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...
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08/30/2019 | H044767 |
In re VaqueraCalifornia 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...
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08/28/2019 | G056786 |
Janusiak v. CooperUnited 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...
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08/22/2019 | 19-1198 |
Panah v. ChappellUnited 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,...
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08/21/2019 | 13-99010 |
In re RigsbyCalifornia 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...
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08/20/2019 | F075680 |
In Re: Larry SwearingenUnited 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...
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08/19/2019 | 19-20565 |
In Re: Dexter JohnsonUnited 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...
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08/14/2019 | 19-20552 |
Pizzuto v. BladesUnited 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...
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08/14/2019 | Pizzuto v. Blades |
Young v. PfeifferUnited States Ninth Circuit
Habeas Corpus
Denying an application for authorization to file a second or successive habeas corpus petition, held that the Supreme Court did not announce a new,...
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08/12/2019 | 19-70286 |
US v. SainzUnited 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...
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08/12/2019 | 17-10310 |