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BUTLER v. O'BRIEN

No. 10-1235.

663 F.3d 514 (2011)

Reginald BUTLER, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Steven O'BRIEN, Superintendent at MCI-OCCC, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 9, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victoria L. Nadel , for appellant.

Jennifer L. Sullivan , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley , Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

The district court denied state prisoner Reginald Butler's petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in a well-reasoned opinion. Butler v. O'Brien, No. 07cv11398, 2010 WL 607295 (D.Mass. Feb. 18, 2010). Butler appeals; we affirm the denial of relief.

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Butler was convicted in 2002 after a jury trial under the Massachusetts aggravated rape statute, Mass. Gen. Laws...

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