Maxfield's Lessee v. Levy

How courts have described this case

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

• In non-capital cases, “we have never said that the possibility of a jury 5 misapplying state law gives rise to federal constitutional error. To the contrary, we have held that 6 instructions that contain errors of state law may not form the basis for federal habeas relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).