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RICE v. HALL

Nos. 07-2660, 07-2693.

564 F.3d 523 (2009)

Jordan Martell RICE, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Timothy HALL, Superintendent, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 4, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shannon Frison with whom Frison Law Firm, P.C. was on brief for appellant.

Argie K. Shapiro with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, and James J. Arguin, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, were on brief for appellee.

Before Boudin, John R. Gibson, and Howard, Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1998, Jordan Martell Rice was convicted in Massachusetts state court of the murder of his neighbor Diane Harrigan. Harrigan was raped and then fatally stabbed eleven times; afterward, the couch on which she was raped and stabbed and the bed on which her body was placed were set afire. After a four-day trial, a jury convicted Rice of arson and first-degree murder by reason of extreme atrocity and cruelty and he was sentenced to life without...

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