Legal Opinion
Dennis v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 9, 2015No. 13-9003PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
In 1991, Chedell Williams was shot and killed in Philadelphia. James Dennis was convicted of her murder and was sentenced to death. In a series of decisions over thirteen years, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed Dennis’s conviction and sentence and denied his application for post-conviction relief. Dennis filed an application under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in which he claimed that a variety of federal constitutional violations justified a writ of habeas corpus. The District…
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