Derrick Hardaway v. Donald S. Young, Warden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a state court's decision is not unreasonable if it took the controlling standard \seriously and produce[d] an answer within the range of defensible positions\
• holding that a state court decision must be more than incorrect from the point of view of the federal court; AEDPA requires that it be “unreasonable,” “lying well outside the boundaries of permissible differences of opinion”
• noting that the voluntariness of a confession is a question of fact to be determined by the totality of circumstances
• noting that the juvenile was arrested 19 times for crimes as serious as robbery and attempted sexual assault and had appeared in juvenile court with appointed counsel seven times
• noting that the juvenile was arrested 19 times for crimes as serious as robbery and attempted sexual assault and had appeared in juvenile court with appointed counsel seven times
• noting that absence of a friendly adult is not dispositive of involuntariness, but a key factor that can tip the balance against admission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).