Pimental v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Montanez · Bernardo Hurtado v. John Tucker Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Sespedes · Commonwealth v. Velasquez
Most-quoted passages
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“[FJederal courts should be particularly cautious about issuing habeas [petitions], on grounds of the objective unreasonableness of a state court’s conclusion that the evidence is sufficient, where there has been a verdict of guilt by a jury of a defendant’s peers, where the defendant’s credibility was evaluated by the jury hearing his testimony, where that verdict has been affirmed on appeal in the state system, and where there is no claim of constitutional error in the conduct of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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