FULFORD

v.

BLACKBURN, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• McCOY v. Mass. Inst. OF Tech., 950 F.2d 13 (1st Cir. 1991)
  …d underdeveloped ... manner are waived on appeal.”) (quotation marks omitted); Beaudett v. City of Hampton, 775 F. 2d 1274, 1278 (4th Cir.1985) (appellate courts should not permit “fleeting references to preserve questions on appeal”), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1088, 106 S.Ct. 1475, 89 L.Ed.2d 729 (1986). Overburdened trial judges cannot be expected to be mind readers. If claims are merely insinuated rather than actually articulated in the trial court, we will ordinarily refuse to deem them preserved for appe…
• Weller v. Dep't OF Soc. Servs. FOR the City OF Baltimore, 901 F.2d 387 (4th Cir. 1990)
  …requiring special judicial solicitude,” a district court is not required to recognize “obscure or extravagant claims defying the most concerted efforts to unravel them.” Beaudett v. City of Hampton, 775 F. 2d 1274, 1277 (4th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1088, 106 S.Ct. 1475, 89 L.Ed.2d 729 (1986). The “special judicial solicitude” with which a district court should view such pro se complaints does not transform the court into an advocate. Only those questions which are squarely presented to a court may…
• United States v. Laurence Keiswetter, 860 F.2d 992 (10th Cir. 1988)
  …fore entering judgment upon such a plea.4 The purpose of this requirement is to ensure the accuracy of the plea through some evidence that a defendant actually committed the offense. Gregory v. Solem, 774 F. 2d 309, 312 (8th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1088, 106 S.Ct. 1475, 89 L.Ed.2d 730 (1986). As in Allen, the troublesome aspect of the present case occurs in connection with the second factor considered in Alford, because of the paucity in the record below of information about the factual basis for…