Federal Judiciary

Petition of the day

By Conor McEvily

Today?s petition of the day is: 

Title: Dobson-Davis v. Lunbery
Docket: 10-443
Issue(s): Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), was a state court's exclusion of proffered hearsay evidence of alleged third-party culpability an ?unreasonable application? of any constitutional rule ?clearly established? by Supreme Court precedent when the evidence did not show that anyone else had confessed to the crime and the state court had excluded the evidence after evaluating its reliability?

Certiorari-Stage Documents:

• Opinion below (9th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).