City of Covington v. Bullock

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• finding that, even if hearsay evidence was erroneously admitted, it did not render the trial fundamentally unfair and thus was not material and did not rise to the level of a constitutional violation
• “An excessive sentence claim may not provide grounds for habeas corpus relief where a petitioner's sentence is within the range prescribed by state law.”
• “An excessive sentence claim may not provide grounds for habeas corpus relief where a petitioner’s sentence is within the range prescribed by state law.”
• “The evidence indicated that the Petitioner abandoned the sock of cocaine when he threw it into the hedges. In doing so, the Petitioner immediately forfeited any privacy right he had in the sock.”
• citing, inter alia, Wade, 333 F.3d at 59–60, 59 n.7

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).