Ex Parte: David Dowe v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that SJC’s determination that trial court’s curative instruction redeemed prosecutor’s otherwise inappropriate comment was a reasonable application of federal law
• finding that the SJC was not unreasonable in application of federal law regarding derogatory prosecutorial comments about third-party culprit defense
• finding that the SJC was not unreasonable in application of federal law regarding derogatory prosecutorial comments about third-party culprit defense
• noting that the Supreme Court has not applied the language in Mathews in any other case or to any defense “other than the entrapment defense at stake in Mathews” and describing the statement as “dicta, not a holding”
• “[I]mproper jury instructions will not form the basis for federal habeas relief.”
• applying this standard in the context of AEDPA review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).