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WELLMON v. COLORADO DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 19-1002.

952 F.3d 1242 (2020)

Jimmie WELLMON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; the Attorney General of the State of Colorado, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED March 18, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Carlson , Ridley, McGreevy & Winocur, P.C., Denver, Colorado, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Christine Brady , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Philip J. Weiser , Attorney General, with her on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before BACHARACH, KELLY, and CARSON, Circuit Judges.

Although Congress has given us the ability to review state criminal convictions, our power to grant a petitioner relief is limited to correcting extreme malfunctions in the state criminal justice systems. In so doing, we review a state court's decision for reasonableness and focus on what the state court knew and did when...

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