Legal Opinion

Tyson Alan Ditch v. James L. Grace

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided March 1, 2007No. 05-3614PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COWEN, Circuit Judge.

Tyson A Ditch appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, we will affirm the order of the District Court.

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At approximately 3:00 a.m. on February 18, 1998, ten gunshots were fired into the front door of the apartment of Dasha Yen-ney, Ditch’s former girlfriend. The police arrived, and, upon investigation, found bullet fragments and a casing from a nine millimeter bullet outside of the apartment. Yenney informed…

2Cases cited21 opinions

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  4. United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Bell v. ConeSupreme Court of the United States · 2002

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