Legal Opinion
Pearl v. Cason
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 23, 2004No. 02-2087PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Sylvester Pearl, a pro se Michigan prisoner, appeals a district court judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. This case has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 34(j)(l), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination, this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed. RApp. P. 34(a).
*859In 1997, a jury convicted Pearl of second-degree murder and felony firearm. The trial court sentenced Pearl to forty to eighty years of imprisonment on the murder conviction and a consecutive two years of imprisonment on the firearm…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Illinois v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Estelle v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Holbrook v. FlynnSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by3 opinions
- United States v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2008
- Pearl v. Cason, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- United States v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2008