Engle v. Isaac

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1982-06-21

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*136 Justice Stevens, concurring in part and dissenting in part. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus should be dismissed if it merely attaches a constitutional label to factual allegations that do not describe a violation of any constitutional right. In Part II-A of its opinion, the Court seems to agree with this propos…

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