Legal Opinion
Rashad v. Lafler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 5, 2012No. 09-2371PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Dwight Rashad, a Michigan prisoner serving a life sentence for possessing more than 650 grams of cocaine, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied the petition. We affirm.
I
At 9:30 p.m. on September 7, 1988, Dwight Rashad pulled up to his girlfriend’s house in suburban Detroit and proceeded inside carrying a black briefcase. As luck would have it, the police were conducting surveillance of the house and had a warrant to search it for evidence of drug trafficking. Officers executed the warrant thirty minutes…
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- Burton v. StewartSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
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