Legal Opinion
Lee v. Corsini
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 26, 2015No. 14-1070PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Petitioner-Appellant Robert M. Lee of murder in the first degree for the 1976 death of Angel Santos Davila. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) affirmed Lee’s conviction on direct appeal. See Commonwealth v. Lee, 383 Mass. 507, 419 N.E.2d 1378 (1981). After several unsuccessful motions for a new trial in state court, Lee filed a petition for habeas corpus relief in federal district court, arguing that his attorneys at both trial and postconviction proceedings were constitutionally ineffective and that prosecutorial misconduct tainted his…
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3Cited by42 opinions
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