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· 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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