Whisenhant v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the prosecutor’s remark about the lack of evidence regarding defendant’s insanity was an invited response to the defense’s closing argument and did not render the trial fundamentally unfair
• reviewing under § 2254(d)(2) whether a judge knew that a motion was not properly served
• reviewing under § 2254(d)(2) whether a judge knew that a motion was not properly served
• “Because [the petitioner] does not raise these claims in his brief to us, these claims are abandoned.” (citation omitted)
• “It is clear that the judicial bias cases cited by Whisenhant involve totally different facts from his own case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).