Supreme Court· 6/19/1992

Wright v. West

Citations

505 U.S. 277
112 S. Ct. 2482
120 L. Ed. 2d 225
1992 U.S. LEXIS 3689

How courts have described this case

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

holding that “the jury was entitled to discount [defendant’s] credibility on account of his prior felony conviction”
holding that factfinder in criminal cases may consider the accused’s false explanations as “affirmative evidence of guilt”
stating that the fact-finder is entitled to consider a party’s dishonesty as affirmative evidence of guilt
noting that \the notion that different standards should apply on direct and collateral review runs throughout our recent habeas jurisprudence\
noting that “[i]n an influential separate opinion endorsed by a majority of the Court, Justice Frankfurter also rejected the principle of absolute deference to fairly litigated state-court judgments”
holding that the Constitution “guarantees no right to counsel on habeas”

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Judges: O'Connor, Souter, Thomas, Rehnquist, Scaua, White, O'Connok, Blackmun, Stevens, Kennedy, Soutek, Scalia

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