Legal Opinion
Thomas J. Lanigan v. Michael T. Maloney
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 9, 1988No. 88-1200, 88-1424PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted Thomas J. Lanigan’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the instructions on reasonable doubt given at his criminal trial in Massachusetts state court were constitutionally defective. The Commonwealth appeals, claiming that 'the district court erred both on the merits and in failing to find that Lanigan’s claim is procedurally barred. We have carefully considered the Commonwealth’s arguments, but conclude that the district court properly found a redressible constitutional violation. We therefore affirm.
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Petitioner Thomas J.…
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