Abby L. Boyes v. Hospice of Southern West Virginia, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that collateral estoppel applies “irrespective of whether the jury considered all relevant evidence, and irrespective of the good faith of the States in bringing successive prosecutions”
• finding that the exclusion of important inculpatory 17 evidence did not mean a material issue had not been “fully litigated” under the principle of 18 collateral estoppel
• reversing a state court decision that, despite collateral estoppel, permitted retrial because important inculpatory evidence had been, in the state court’s view, wrongly excluded
• reversing a state court decision that, despite collateral estoppel, permitted retrial because important inculpatory evidence had been, in the state court’s view, wrongly excluded
• barring retrial of petitioner for assault of one victim stemming from exploded mail bomb after his acquittal for murder of the other victim from the same explosion
• reversing a state court’s ruling that a second trial was permissible, despite collateral estoppel, because a material issue had not been “fully litigated” after the trial court excluded important incul- patory evidence (internal quotation marks omitted)

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