Legal Opinion
Eric W. Taylor v. Pamela Withrow
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 5, 2002No. 01-1908PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J., joined by Moore, J.,
BOGGS, J, (pp. 854-855), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment of the court as expressed in Part II.D.
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
In this case the respondent, warden Pamela Withrow (hereafter “State”), appeals the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner Eric Taylor, who was convicted of second-degree murder in Michigan in 1995. The district *849court issued the writ after finding that the trial court had deprived Taylor of his right to due process when it refused to instruct the jury on the defenses of self-defense and imperfect self-defense. For…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- California v. TrombettaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Mathews v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
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3Cited by156 opinions
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