Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. Bergeron
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 27, 2016No. 15-1081PPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Shaun Jenkins was convicted in Massachusetts state court in 2005 of the first-degree murder of his cousin and was sentenced to life in prison. He did not testify, and this appeal involves the question of who has the burden of showing why under the facts of this case. The state trial court denied Jenkins’s motion for a new trial, and the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) affirmed both the conviction and the denial of the new trial motion. See Commonwealth v. Jenkins, 458 Mass. 791, 941 N.E.2d 56, 62 (2011).
Jenkins appeals from the Massachusetts federal district court’s denial…
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