Legal Opinion
Linton v. Saba
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 1, 2016No. 14-2110PPublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
On February- 23, 2005, Andrea Harvey’s parents discovered her body in Harvey’s-Cambridge apartment. Her husband, Damion Linton, was subsequently arrested and convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in the Massachusetts Superior Court (“Superior Court”). The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) affirmed the verdict as well as the Superior Court’s denial of Linton’s motion for a new trial on appeal. Commonwealth v. Linton, 456 Mass. 534, 924 N.E.2d 722, 727 (2010).
Linton filed a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus in the United States District Court for the…
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