Terry Allen Langford v. Rick Day, Acting Administrator of Corrections Division Joseph P. Mazurek, Attorney General of the State of Montana

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• holding that a state law issue cannot be transformed into federal law 17 issue by merely invoking due process
• holding that a plaintiff cannot “transform a state-law issue into a federal one merely by 17 asserting a violation of due process”
• holding that a plaintiff cannot “transform a state-law issue 24 into a federal one merely by asserting a violation of due process”
• holding that counsel's failure to pursue suppression of a confession was not deficient performance where the defendant had \insiste[d] ... that he wanted no motions to suppress or other types of delay to interfere with his intended plea of guilty\
• holding that counsel’s failure to pursue suppression of a confession was not deficient performance where the defendant had ”insiste[d] ... that he wanted no motions to suppress or other types of delay to interfere with his intended plea of guilty”
• holding that a petitioner may not “transform a state-law issue into a federal one merely by asserting a violation of due process,” and that “alleged errors in the application of state law are not cognizable in federal habeas corpus” pro- ceedings

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