John Wesley Duffel v. Michael Dutton, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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• second hearing not prohibited by double jeopardy where trial court erroneously excluded prosecution’s proffered evidence making presentation of sufficient evidence impossible
• “A federal court must accept a state court’s interpretation of that state’s statutes and rules of practice.”

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