Tony Lee Bowser v. Bill Boggs, Warden, Rifle Correctional Center, Colorado Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• describing the allegation that “plaintiffs spent money that, absent 21 defendants’ actions, they would not have spent” as a “quintessential injury-in-fact”
• finding petitioner’s state court appeal asserted federal rights that, though in somewhat general terms, were “sufficiently discernable to fairly apprise the Colorado Court of the federal nature of [his] claims.”
• although prosecutor's expression of his personal opinion in closing argument was arguably improper, it did not render trial fundamentally unfair, because prosecutor did not rely on evidence outside record or misstate or misrepresent facts
• “We will not second guess a state court’s application or interpretation of state law on a petition for habeas unless such application or interpretation violates federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).