Bates v. Rc Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “The decision of whether there is enough evidence to justify a lesser-included offense charge rests with the sound discretion of the trial judge. Further, where ... highest court of a state has reviewed a defendant’s request for a lesser included offense instruction and concluded that it is not warranted by the evidence elicited at trial, that conclusion is axiomatically correct, as a matter of state law. Accordingly, the circumstances that would induce a federal court to overturn the state court determination would need to be extraordinary, indeed. Because federal habeas corpus relief does not lie for errors of state law ... our only question here is whether the [state] courts’ finding that there was insufficient evidence to support a [lesser included offense] instruction was so wrong as to amount to a fundamental miscarriage of justice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 624 F. Supp. 2d 478 - Winston v. Kelly

2. “confronts a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from a decision of the Court and nevertheless arrives at a result different from [its] precedent.” Id. (citing Terry Williams, 529 U.S. at 405-06, 120 S.Ct. 1495 ). A state court decision involves an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 F. Supp. 2d 749 - Orbe v. True

3. “correctly identifies the governing legal rule but applies it unreasonably to the facts of a particular prisoner’s case,” id. (citing Terry Williams, 529 U.S. at 407-08, 120 S.Ct. 1495 ), or”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 F. Supp. 2d 749 - Orbe v. True