Pina v. Maloney

How courts have described this case

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

• opting to “by-pass the threshold question of whether there has been a state court merits adjudication” when the state court judge “commented[ed] briefly on the merits” of petitioner’s claim
• relying on facts as recounted by SJC supplemented with other facts in the record consistent with SJC’s decision
• choosing to “by-pass the threshold question of whether there has been a state court merits adjudication” where the state court “comment[ed] briefly on the merits” of petitioner’s claim
• “Under these circumstances, counsel’s decision to pursue a defense of misidentification, rather than an alibi defense, can only be viewed as a reasonable, tactical decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).