BEBO v. MEDEIROS

No. 17-2218.

906 F.3d 129 (2018)

Joseph A. BEBO, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Sean MEDEIROS, Acting Superintendent, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 3, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Prevett , Cambridge, MA, with whom Federal Defender Office was on brief, for petitioner.

Thomas E. Bocian , Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, with whom Maura Healey , Attorney General of Massachusetts, was on brief, for respondent.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Lipez, Circuit Judges.


With respect to federal habeas review of state criminal convictions, Congress has ordained an especially deferential standard of review, which compels us to look only at federal constitutional law as clearly established by the Supreme Court. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1). This deferential standard sometimes...

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