Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Coalter
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 28, 1995No. 94-1626PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Gary Stewart was convicted by a jury in Massachusetts Superior Court of second degree murder. After the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the conviction, Stewart filed a habeas corpus petition and the district court ultimately granted the writ, holding that the evidence at the state trial was inadequate to permit a reasonable jury to convict. That ten very able judges before us have disagreed so sharply over the evidence is a measure of the difficulty of this case.
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Stewart was indicted by a Middlesex grand jury on August 1,1986, and charged with the first degree murder of…
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