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Estelle Vs. Mcguire

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 04, 1991

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  12. U.S. 62 (1991) October Term, 1991 Syllabus Estelle, Warden V. Mcguire
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  13. it is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state-court determinations on state-law questions. Lewis v. Jeffers
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  14. have concluded that it, read in the context of other instructions, authorized the use of propensity evidence. Boyde v. California
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  15. or serious injuries by nonaccidental means. People v. Bledsoe
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  16. see also Pulley v. Harris
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  17. People v. Bledsoe
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  18. Landeros v. Flood
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  19. People v. Jackson
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  20. Because the prosecution had 2 In this regard, we observe that the Ninth Circuit reached a similar result in Blair v. McCarthy
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  21. of Appeals based its grant of habeas relief solely on a violation of state law that prejudiced the defendant. Blair v. McCarthy
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  22. Mathews v. United
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  23. trial. We hold that McGuire's due process rights were not violated by the admission of the evidence. See Spencer v. Texas
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  24. italics was omitted from the actual jury instruction given at McGuire's trial). 72 relief. See Marshall v. Lonberger
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  25. see also Henderson v. Kibbe
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  26. but must be considered in the context of the instructions as a whole and the trial record. Cupp v. Naughten
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  27. that violates the Constitution. Boyde v. California
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  28. U. S. 370 , 380 (1990).4 And we also bear 4 We acknowledge that language in the later cases of Cage v. Louisiana
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  29. U. S. 39 (1990), and Yates v. Evatt
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  30. Dowling v. United
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  31. and reaffirm the standard set out in Boyde. 74 finding by a preponderance of the evidence. Cf. People v. Simon
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  32. Huddleston v. United
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  33. and his wife, because they were the only two people regularly caring for Tori during her short life. See People v. Jackson
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  34. in the context of other instructions, authorized the use of propensity evidence 75 pure and simple. Boyde v. California
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  35. see also Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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  36. ante, at 68 (quoting People v. Jackson
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  37. the Due Process Clause if they relieve the State of the burden of persuasion on an element of the offense. Patterson v. New
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  38. the jury that the suggested conclusion should be inferred based on the predicate facts proved. Ulster County Court v. Allen
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  39. Syllabus Estelle, Warden V. Mcguire
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  40. Boyde v. California
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  41. Pulley v. Harris
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  42. Blair v. McCarthy
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  43. See Spencer v. Texas
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  44. See Marshall v. Lonberger
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  45. the Constitution. Boyde v. California
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  46. of Cage v. Louisiana
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  47. and Yates v. Evatt
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  48. Cf. People v. Simon
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  49. See People v. Jackson
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  50. Patterson v. New
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