Cagle v. Branker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “for a federal habeas court to overturn a state court’s credibility judgments, the state court’s error must be stark and clear”
• instructing that “for a federal habeas court to overturn a state court’s credibility judgments, the state court’s error must be stark and clear”
• noting that “federal habeas courts have no license to redetermine credibility of witnesses observed by the state trial court, but not by them.”
• rejecting petitioner’s more liberal interpretation of a state statute that had been strictly construed by state appellate courts because “it is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state-court determinations on state-law questions.”
• noting, absent “stark and clear” error, federal habeas courts cannot overturn a state court’s credibility determination and have no license to redetermine credibility of witnesses whose demeanor has been observed by the state court (citation omitted)
• “[F]or a federal habeas court to overturn a state court’s credibility judgments, the state court’s error must be stark and clear.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).