Legal Opinion
Varner v. Stovall
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2007No. 06-1255PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Janniss Varner of assault with intent to commit murder after she hired a third party to shoot her abusive boyfriend. In her federal habeas petition, she claimed that the state courts (1) violated her rights under the Religion Clauses of the First and Fourteenth Amendments by admitting into evidence several journal entries that included prayers and an acknowledgment that she had tried to kill her boyfriend and (2) violated her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by refusing to allow her to introduce evidence of Battered Women’s Syndrome in…
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