Legal Opinion
Samuel Fuentes v. John Moran, Director, Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 4, 1984No. 83-1810PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
Samuel Fuentes appeals from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
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Fuentes was convicted in 1978 of the first-degree murders of Helen and Jane Dias. Fuentes’s petition claims that police conduct in the course of the murder investi gation violated his rights under the fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendments. We recite the factual details of the investigation, keeping in mind our duty “to accord a presumption of correctness to state-court findings of fact.” Sumner v. Mata, 455 U.S. 591,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Rochin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by17 opinions
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