What Standard of Review Should Be Applied to State Court Findings of Fact Under the AEDPA?
Rice et al. v. Collins Docket No. 04-52 From: The Ninth Circuit Case at a Glance The Ninth Circuit in this case granted the defendant’s petition for habeas corpus relief on the grounds that the California state courts’ denial of his Batson claim involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law and an unreasonable determination of the facts. The Supreme Court has now agreed to review the circumstances in which a federal habeas court can reject the presumption of correctness for state-court fact-findings and condemn a state-court adjudication as an unreasonable determination of the facts. • Previewed by Elizabeth B. Wydra, an attorney specializing in appellate litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP in San Francisco, California.
