Legal Opinion
Montes v. Trombley
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2010No. 08-2521PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
A Michigan jury found Oscar Montes guilty of kidnapping. He was sentenced to a term of 30 to 60 years of imprisonment. After a series of appeals and remands in the Michigan state-court system, Montes’s conviction and sentence were affirmed. Montes then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court, arguing, among other things, that his sentence exceeded the “statutory maximum” and therefore violated the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The district court denied his petition. For the reasons set forth…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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