George Guy Derden, III v. Sheriff Sammie McNeel and Attorney General--State of Mississippi

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• noting that several Circuit Courts have drawn an analogy between cumulative error analysis in habeas and cumulative error analysis in direct review of federal criminal cases
• requiring that cumulative errors deny “fundamental fairness.”
• “A habeas petitioner may not just complain of unfavorable rulings or events in the effort to cumulate errors.”
• “errors of state law, including evidentiary errors, are not cognizable in habeas corpus”
• “Errors of state law, including evidentiary errors, are not cognizable in habeas corpus.”
• “[F]ederal habeas corpus relief may only be granted for cumulative errors in the conduct of a state trial where (1) the individual errors involved matters of constitutional dimension rather than mere violations of state law; (2

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