Legal Opinion
O'Brien v. Dubois
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 27, 1998No. 97-1979PublishedCited by 208 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA Circuit Judge.
In this pathbreaking case, petitioner-appellant Robert O’Brien, who assails his Massachusetts manslaughter conviction on the ground that the trial court unconstitutionally restricted recross-examination, prays for a writ of habeas corpus. Evaluating the petitioner’s claim requires us to appraise -and interpret the standard of review provision incorporated into 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. 1 After developing and applying an appropriate analytic framework, we uphold the district court’s denial of habeas relief.
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2Cases cited58 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by208 opinions
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- Tuan Van Tran v. Gary Lindsey, Warden Salinas Valley State Prisons State of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
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