Sedley Alley v. Ricky Bell

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• holding that habeas corpus cannot be used to challenge errors or deficiencies in state postconviction proceedings
• finding that hostility toward defendant’s trial counsel is not evidence of bias where it stemmed from events occurring in the course of the proceeding
• stating that “[t]his court has looked to the Supreme Court’s decision in Liteky v. United States to provide the standard for deciding judicial bias claims” under the Due Process Clause
• looking to the Supreme Court’s decision in Liteky for the standard for deciding judicial bias claims
• looking to the Supreme Court’s decision in Liteky for the standard for deciding judicial bias claims
• noting that the petitioner had not even \come close\ to stating a judicial-bias claim where he alleged that the trial judge answered jurors' questions in the jury room during deliberations and later stopped by a picnic that the jurors were having on a weekend to say hello

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