(DOWNLOAD) "Fulton v. Warden" by United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Fulton v. Warden
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Release Date : January 20, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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WINTER, Chief Judge Samuel Fulton and Ronald Robinson were each convicted of first-degree murder in a Maryland court in the early 1970's. Both asserted alibi defenses. Their convictions arose from entirely separate crimes and their appeals are related only by the legal issue on which they both petitioned for habeas corpus relief. In 1978, in unrelated actions, Fulton and Robinson each petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Both Fulton and Robinson were found to have exhausted their state remedies, and the district court concluded that the instructions in both trials were constitutionally infirm. It is now conceded that the juries which convicted them wre erroneously instructed with respect to the burden of proof concerning their defenses of alibi. In both instances, however, the district court concluded that the errors were harmless under the particular circumstances of each case. Both Fulton and Robinson appealed and their cases were consolidated for argument before us.1 After reviewing the records in both cases, we are convinced that the district court correctly decided both cases. Accordingly, we affirm both judgments.
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