[DOWNLOAD] "Stacy V. Love" by Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Stacy V. Love
- Author : Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 03, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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The State of Tennessee appeals an order of the United States District Court for Middle Tennessee, granting Stacy's writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In February of 1978, Stacy was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Knox County, Tennessee jury. After an unsuccessful appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Stacy petitioned for and was granted a writ of certiorari by the Tennessee Supreme Court which also affirmed his conviction, over a vigorous dissent, in a decision reported as State v. Stacy, 601 S.W.2d 696 (Tenn.1980). After exhausting all his state remedies, Stacy filed this petition alleging inter alia, that his conviction was unconstitutional because it was not supported by sufficient evidence. See Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S. Ct. 2781, 61 L. Ed. 2d 560 (1979). More specifically he argued, and the District Court agreed, that the state had failed to produce sufficient evidence from which any rational trier of fact could conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Stacy was sane when he shot his victim, a Greyhound Bus Lines ticket teller.