Legal Opinion
Sperry v. McKune
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 25, 2006No. 04-3472PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Jeffrey Sperry appeals a district court order denying his petition for habeas relief from a first-degree murder conviction. We granted a certificate of appealability on the following issues: (1) whether Kansas’s first-degree murder statute is unconstitutionally vague; (2) whether Sperry’s due process rights were violated by the prosecution’s use of a witness’s purportedly coerced statements to impeach the witness’s trial testimony; and (3) whether Sperry had ineffective assistance of counsel at trial and on appeal. We affirm.
Background
On November 25, 1995, Jeffrey…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Kolender v. LawsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by38 opinions
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