John Lee Shaw v. Robert S. Boney, Warden, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General of the State of Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he general rule is that a federal court will not review a trial court’s actions with respect to the admission of evidence.”
• evidence must be “crucial, critical, highly significant factor”; case involved double hearsay
• “A state evidentiary violation in and of itself does not support habeas corpus relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).