Legal Opinion
Coningford v. Rhode Island
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 19, 2011No. 08-2219PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant James D. Coning-ford, a state prisoner, appeals from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus. He posits that the improvident admission of evidence of prior bad acts rendered his state trial fundamentally unfair. We find his claim to be both unexhausted and untenable and, accordingly, affirm the denial of habeas relief.
I. BACKGROUND
We rehearse only those facts necessary to place this appeal into perspective. Readers who hunger for more exegetic detail may consult the thorough opinion in which the Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the…
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