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Jennings v. Stephens, No. 13-7211 (U.S. Supreme Court) (575 U.S. ___; 135 S.Ct. 793) (January 14, 2015) (Justice Scalia)

Loaded on June 29, 2015 published in Punch and Jurists June 29, 2015
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Spisak Theory.

Here a divided Court held that a prisoner who sought federal habeas relief based on three theories and prevailed in the district court on two of them is not required to file a cross-appeal or seek a certificate of appealability on the third theory.

This is a death penalty/habeas corpus ...

 

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