Legal Opinion

David Hudson v. Kurt Jones

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided February 26, 2004No. 02-1586PublishedCited by 326 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Imprisoned as the result of a 1985 state-court conviction for murder and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, David Hudson petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. He contended, among other claims, that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel at trial because his lawyer had been physically absent from court when the judge, at the request of the deliberating jury, reread selected portions of the instructions as to certain elements of the crimes charged. The district court granted Hudson a conditional writ of habeas corpus…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. Bousley v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
  4. Lambrix v. SingletarySupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  5. Jonathan Wayne Nobles v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1997

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3Cited by326 opinions

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  3. State v. MaestasUtah Supreme Court · 2012
  4. Brown v. WattersCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2010
  5. Musladin v. LamarqueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2009

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