· 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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