Legal Opinion
Libby v. Duval
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 25, 1994No. 93-1588PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, Clayton Libby, a Massachusetts state prisoner serving a life sentence on a 1971 conviction for murder in the first degree, challenges the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In so doing, petitioner primarily contends that the court erred in deeming harmless a jury instruction on the issue of malice which set up an unconstitutional mandatory presumption. See Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 520-24, 99 S.Ct. 2450, 2451-59, 61 L.Ed.2d 39 (1979) (instruction containing presumption which has the effect of relieving…
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Orlando Rosa v. Howard A. Peters, Iii, Director, Illinois Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
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