Legal Opinion
Horton v. Allen
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 26, 2004No. 03-1423PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Russell Horton, a Massachusetts state prisoner convicted of two first-degree murders, appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
I. Factual Background
In June 1998, a jury convicted Horton of committing two first-degree murders and an assault with the intent to murder. We provide a summary of the evidence introduced at Horton’s trial. See Commonwealth v. Horton, 434 Mass. 823, 753 N.E.2d 119, 122-24 (2001).
On May 25, 1994, the three victims, Carlos and Manuel Araujo and Kepler Desir drove together from Boston to Brockton,…
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