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JOHN v. RUSSO

No. 06-2594.

561 F.3d 88 (2009)

Dwight JOHN, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Lois RUSSO, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 2, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Lawson, with whom Oteri & Lawson, P.C. was on brief for petitioner.

Jonathan M. Ofilos, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General was on brief for respondent.

Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Dwight John appeals from the district court's denial of his habeas corpus petition. John was convicted in Massachusetts Superior Court (state trial court) of first-degree murder of Lezmore Buffong1 and is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). Commonwealth v. John, 442...

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