· 4/3/1989
Yagow v. Melroe
Citations
- 490 U.S. 1008
- 109 S. Ct. 1647
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- habeas court must defer to state court’s interpretation of state law unless interpretation is “untenable or amounts to a subterfuge to avoid federal review of a constitutional violation”; citation omitted
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