Linton v. Saba, No. 14-2110 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) affirmed. Thereafter, Defendant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court, alleging that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and that the admission of statements that the victim made to her father violated Defendant’s rights under the Confrontation Clause. The district court denied the petition. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that Defendant did not prove that the SJC acted “contrary to” or unreasonably applied “clearly established Federal law” under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.
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