Supreme Court· 12/4/1991

Estelle v. McGuire

Citations

502 U.S. 62
112 S. Ct. 475
116 L. Ed. 2d 385
1991 U.S. LEXIS 7060

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holding that whether the instruction “could have” been applied in an unconstitutional manner is not the proper inquiry
holding that “it is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state court determinations on state law questions”
holding that, in order to unravel issues of state law, federal courts “must defer to the judgment of state courts on interpretations of state law”
holding that “ 'federal habeas corpus review does not lie for errors of state law’ ”
ruling that introduction of evidence did not violate due process guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment upon determining that evidence was properly admitted
holding that a federal habeas court may not reexamine state court determinations of state law questions

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Judges: Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Stevens, O'Connor, Thomas

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