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Dobson-Davis v. Lunbery

Petition for certiorari denied on December 6, 2010
Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
10-443 9th Cir. N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2010

Issue: 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?

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