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Supreme Court criminal sentencing cases

By Chuck Kallendorf

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The Supreme Court ruled per curiam last Monday that Federal courts could not issue writs of habeas corpus to state prisoners whose confinement does not violate federal law. "We have repeatedly held that 'federal habeas corpus relief does not lie for errors of state law,'" the Court said, citing its 1991 decision in Estelle v. McGuire. "[I]t is not the province of a federal habeas court to

Full post as published by Cincinnati Law Library Blog on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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