Legal Opinion
Parker v. Matthews
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 2012No. 11-845PublishedCited by 1,160 opinions
1Per curiam
In this habeas case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit set aside two 29-year-old murder convictions based on the flimsiest of rationales. The court’s decision is a textbook example of what the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) proscribes: “using federal habeas corpus review as a vehicle to second-guess the reasonable decisions of state courts.” Renico v. Lett, 559 U. S. 766, 779 (2010). We therefore grant the petition for certiorari and reverse.
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Between 1 and 2 a.m. on the morning of June 29, 1981, respondent David Eugene Matthews broke into…
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