Johnny Lee Kirby v. Michael Dutton, Warden William Leech, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that habeas corpus is not the proper means by which prisoners should challenge errors or deficiencies in state post-conviction proceedings
• declining to allow the scope of the writ of habeas corpus to reach complaints about the deficiencies in state post-conviction proceedings
• declining to read the scope of the writ of habeas corpus to reach complaints about the deficiencies in state post-conviction proceedings
• “the scope of the writ [does not] reach this second tier of complaints about deficiencies in state post-conviction proceedings”
• “We decline to allow the scope of the writ to reach this second tier of complaints about deficiencies in state post-conviction proceedings.”
• claims of denial of due process and equal protection in collateral proceedings not cognizable in federal habeas because not constitutionally mandated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).