Legal Opinion
Strickler v. Greene
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1999No. 98-5864PublishedCited by 3,677 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
delivered the opinion of the Court.†
The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus and vacated his capital murder conviction and death sentence on the grounds that the Commonwealth had failed to disclose important exculpatory evidence and that petitioner had not, in consequence, received a fair trial. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed because petitioner had not raised his constitutional claim at his trial or in state collateral proceedings. In addition, the Fourth Circuit concluded that petitioner’s claim…
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