Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Spalding
District Court, E.D. Washington
Decided March 19, 1981No. C-80-479PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
QUACKENBUSH, District Judge.
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He is confined as a result of a conviction for first degree murder. He challenges that confinement alleging: (1) an alibi instruction shifted the state’s burden of persuasion onto him; (2) the reasonable doubt instruction overstated the uncertainty required for a reasonable doubt; (3) an adverse missing witness inference prejudiced a fair trial; (4) the admission of prior trial testimony of an unavailable state’s witness violated the right to confrontation; (5) a limitation…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Holland v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. AdamsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993
- State v. Allah Jamaal W.West Virginia Supreme Court · 2000
- Simmons v. DalsheimDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1982
- Curtis Lee Johnson v. James Spalding, Dr. Robert Jones, the Attorney General of the State of WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Martinez v. SpencerDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2002
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