Legal Opinion
James Robert McQueary v. James Blodgett, Superintendent, Wsp Corrections, Dept of Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1991No. 89-35817PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
James Robert McQueary appeals from dismissal of his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus.
I
The parties agree that this court has jurisdiction, if at all, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, which provides that federal courts “shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a) (1988) (emphasis added). The district court concluded that McQueary had failed to…
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