Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Habeas Corpus : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | BUNKLEY v. FLORIDA |
| Date: | 05/27/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-8636 |
| Summary: | In failing to determine whether the "common pocketknife" exception to Florida's definition of a weapon encompassed petitioner's pocketknife at the time his conviction became final, the Florida Supreme Court contradicted Fiore v. White, 531 U.S. 225 (2001). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | PRICE v. VINCENT |
| Date: | 05/19/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-524 |
| Summary: | Michigan Supreme Court's finding, that a judge's comments were not sufficiently final to terminate jeopardy, was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Federal circuit court erred in reviewing Double Jeopardy issue de novo, and finding that habeas relief was warranted. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law |
| Title: | DEMORE v. KIM |
| Date: | 04/29/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1491 |
| Summary: | Congress may require that deportable criminal aliens be detained for the brief period necessary for removal proceedings. Federal courts have jurisdiction to review a constitutional challenge to a detention under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. section 1226(c). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | MASSARO v. US |
| Date: | 04/23/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1559 |
| Summary: | An ineffective assistance of counsel claim may be brought in a collateral proceeding under 28 U.S.C. section 2255, whether or not the petitioner could have raised the claim on direct appeal. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | WOODFORD v. GARCEAU |
| Date: | 03/25/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1862 |
| Summary: | For purposes of application of amendments made to 28 U.S.C. ch. 153 by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a case does not become "pending" until an application for federal habeas corpus relief is filed in federal court, and an application filed after the AEDPA effective date is subject to AEDPA amendments. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | LOCKYER v. ANDRADE |
| Date: | 03/05/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1127 |
| Summary: | A California appeals court decision, affirming a sentence of two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison for a "third strike" conviction, was not an unreasonable application of the clearly established gross disproportionality federal standard. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | CLAY v. US |
| Date: | 03/04/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1500 |
| Summary: | For the purpose of starting the clock on 28 U.S.C. section 2255's one-year limitation period, a judgment of conviction becomes final when the time expires for filing a petition for certiorari contesting the appellate court's affirmation of the conviction. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | MILLER-EL v. COCKRELL |
| Date: | 02/25/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-7662 |
| Summary: | When a prisoner is seeking a certificate of appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. section 2254, the court of appeals should limit its examination to a threshold inquiry into the underlying merit of the claim, and the circuit court should have issued a COA on petitioner's Batson claims of race-based peremptory challenges to jurors. |