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· 9/19/1991

Junior Brown v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

Citations

  • 937 F.2d 175

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  • finding no prejudice because the sentence for the lesser included offense was exactly the same as the sentence imposed on the defendant
  • finding no prejudice because the sentence for the lesser included offense was exactly the same as the sentence imposed on the defendant
  • characterizing pre- Malik evidentiary sufficiency standard as a `state procedural nuance foreign to federal constitutional norms' even though our decisions claimed this standard was consistent with federal constitutional law
  • emphasis in original; ellipsis inserted; bracketed material replacing internal citation; internal quotation marks omitted
  • “[T]he Constitution imposes no requirement that the testimony of an accomplice-witness be corroborated by independent evidence.”
  • \[T]he Constitution imposes no requirement that the testimony of an accomplice-witness be corroborated by independent evidence.\

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Judges: Goldberg, Higginbotham, Jones

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