Stouffer v. Trammell

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to consider a restyled claim—and not mentioning the possibility of a remand to the district court—because “(1) it was not raised before the district court as part of the habeas petition, and (2
• “We do not generally consider issues that were not raised before the district court as part of the habeas petition.”
• “We do not generally consider issues that were not raised before the district court as part of the habeas petition.”
• “The Remmer presumption of prejudice does not apply, however, in a collateral review when the state court held an evidentiary hearing and the state’s highest court reviewed the claim on its merits and made factual findings.”
• “When a trial court is apprised of the fact that an extrinsic influence may have tainted the trial, the proper remedy is a hearing to determine the circumstances of the improper contact and the extent of the prejudice, if any, to the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).