Legal Opinion
Gomes v. Brady
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 6, 2009No. 08-1810PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
Carlos Luis Gomes was convicted in Massachusetts Superior Court of first degree murder. After exhausting his state court remedies, Gomes sought a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in federal district court, alleging that a prosecutorial comment during summation violated his Fifth Amendment rights and that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective. The district court denied the petition, and we affirm.
I
We relay the facts as recounted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”), which affirmed Gomes’s conviction. Commonwealth v. Gomes,…
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