Legal Opinion
Lynch v. Ficco
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 15, 2006No. 05-2183PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
After a jury trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court, Edward H. Lynch Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He appealed, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) affirmed his conviction and affirmed the denial of various post-trial motions. See Commonwealth v. Lynch, 439 Mass. 532, 789 N.E.2d 1052, 1062 (2003), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1059, 124 S.Ct. 833, 157 L.Ed.2d 715 (2003).
Lynch filed a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus in the federal district court. The court denied the petition on all grounds. Lynch then applied…
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