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Melendez v. Neven

District Court, D. Nevada

Decided September 23, 2019No. 2:16-cv-01003Unknown

1Opinion

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 Mauricio I. Melendez, Case No.: 2:16-cv-01003-JAD-DJA 4 Petitioner 5 v. Order Denying Habeas Petition and Certificate of Appealability 6 Brian Williams,et al., [ECF No. 18] 7 Respondents 8 9 Nevada state prisoner Mauricio I. Melendezbrings this habeas petition to challenge his 10 first-degree-murder conviction for the shooting death of his wife.1 Melendez claims that his 11 prosecution was plagued by ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct. But, 12 because I find that Melendez has not shown any basis for habeas…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  3. Harrington v. RichterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
  4. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  5. Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993

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