Legal Opinion
Jewett v. Brady
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 10, 2011No. 09-2486PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
William Jewett, Jr., was convicted by a state court jury in November 1998 of the January 1993 rape and murder of a young woman to whom he offered a ride home after a party. That conviction and the denial of his new trial motion in 2003 were affirmed on appeal by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”). Commonwealth v. Jewett, 442 Mass. 356, 813 N.E.2d 452 (2004).
Jewett appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which he claimed ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel. We affirm the…
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