Legal Opinion
Sidney A. Clark v. John Moran, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 9, 1991No. 91-1128PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Sidney Clark was convicted in 1976 by a jury in Rhode Island Superior Court of second-degree murder for the 1974 stabbing death of Claude Saunders. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Adult Correctional Institute (“ACI”) in Rhode Island and, having exhausted his state remedies, has sought habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. His habeas petition was denied by the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. 749 F.Supp. 1186. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Claude Saunders, an ACI inmate, was stabbed to death in his cell…
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