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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Supreme Court holds that federal courts should defer to state rulings in habeas proceedings
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously Wednesday in Johnson v. Williams [JURIST report] that in Tara Williams' case, the California Court of Appeal properly adjudicated her federal Sixth Amendment [text] claim on its merits and should have been deferred to under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of (AEDPA) [28 USC § 2254(d) text]. The Court held that this deference is proper, and although the California Court of Appeal did not explicitly deal with...
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