Eloy Simental v. Ronald Matrisciano

How courts have described this case

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• “[M]ere inconsistencies in testimony by government witnesses do not establish the government’s knowing use of false testimony.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “This rule includes evidence useful to the defense in impeaching government witnesses, even if the evidence itself is not inherently exculpatory.”
• The Court may rely on the factual summary of the state appellate court without reviewing the transcripts of petitioner’s trial, which is not required, and “is, in fact, quite rare.”
• use of transcripts “is left to the sound discretion of the district court”
• “[w]hile the review of a state court transcript is occasionally necessary in habeas cases, it is certainly not required and is, in fact, quite rare[;]” a federal habeas court may “rely[] instead on the facts as found in the Illinois Appellate Court rulings”
• “[w]hile the review of a state court transcript is occasionally necessary in habeas cases, it is certainly not required and is, in fact, quite rare;” a federal habeas court may “rely[] instead on the facts as found in the Illinois Appellate Court rulings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).