Legal Opinion
Cullen v. Pinholster
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 4, 2011No. 09-1088PublishedCited by 5,633 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
[563 U.S. 174]
Justice Thomas
delivered the opinion of the Court.*
Scott Lynn Pinholster and two accomplices broke into a house in the middle of the night and brutally beat and stabbed to death two men who happened to interrupt the burglary. A jury convicted Pinholster of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death.
After the California Supreme Court twice unanimously denied Pinholster habeas relief, a Federal District Court held an evidentiary hearing and granted Pinholster habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. §2254. The District Court concluded that Pinholster’s trial…
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