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O'BRIEN v. DUBOIS

No. 97-1979.

145 F.3d 16 (1998)

Robert O'BRIEN, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Larry E. DUBOIS, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Sheketoff, with whom Sheketoff & Homan was on brief, for appellant.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this pathbreaking case, petitioner-appellant Robert O'Brien, who assails his Massachusetts manslaughter conviction on the ground that the trial court unconstitutionally restricted recross-examination, prays for a writ of habeas corpus. Evaluating the petitioner's claim requires us to appraise and interpret the standard of review provision incorporated into 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of...

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